relocations

relocations

[Stuart Clarke]

Hi all,

I am attempting to compile a simple program on my i386 machine for an ARM 
target.  In doing this, GCC produces a relocation section in its output file 
(.rel.text).  This relocation section is of the no-addenda variety, however, 
and is incompatible with the system on which I am attempting to run my 
program.  Said system requires a .rela.text section for its relocations (i.e. 
one with addenda values).

GCC doesn't seem to have a run-time option for producing a rela.text section 
rather than a rel.text one.  Is there any means by which the GCC source could 
be patched/adjusted to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Stuart

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Re: relocations

[Stuart Clarke]

I am using the following version of GCC:

gcc version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux)

I apologise for not including this information in my first post.

Thanks again,

Stuart

On Saturday 26 October 2002 21:57, Stuart Clarke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am attempting to compile a simple program on my i386 machine for an ARM
> target.  In doing this, GCC produces a relocation section in its output
> file (.rel.text).  This relocation section is of the no-addenda variety,
> however, and is incompatible with the system on which I am attempting to
> run my program.  Said system requires a .rela.text section for its
> relocations (i.e. one with addenda values).
>
> GCC doesn't seem to have a run-time option for producing a rela.text
> section rather than a rel.text one.  Is there any means by which the GCC
> source could be patched/adjusted to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
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Re: relocations

[Richard Henderson]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:57:11PM +1000, Stuart Clarke wrote:
> GCC doesn't seem to have a run-time option for producing a rela.text section 
> rather than a rel.text one.  Is there any means by which the GCC source could 
> be patched/adjusted to accomplish this?

No.  You need to look at the assembler, not the compiler.


r~

Re: relocations

[Mike Stump]

On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 04:57 AM, Stuart Clarke wrote:
> GCC doesn't seem to have a run-time option for producing a rela.text 
> section
> rather than a rel.text one.  Is there any means by which the GCC 
> source could
> be patched/adjusted to accomplish this?

Wrong list.  I think most of these issues have little to do with the 
compiler.  I think you want to check out the binutils list.  Yes, in 
binutils, it is easily reconfigured.  See the binutils source code, a 
proper port to your system would include these changes.