Re: [patch] Add support for new mips relocs

[Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> Catherine, please preserve attribution when you can; I wrote all
> this.  Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:36:34PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>> I'm probably missing something, sorry, but how does the patch handle
>> the property mentioned in the original comment?  Relocations must never
>> resolve to another object's (traditional) lazy-binding stub.
>
> This does happen, but the code that does it is far away: in this case,
> in glibc.  The dynamic loader will output which object it bound the
> relocation to, and it will be one that contains a definition rather
> than a lazy binding stub.

Oh, OK.  So an old glibc will still work with old objects?

(Sorry, it's been so long since I wrote this stuff, and I don't
really have time to refresh my memory.  It might well be that,
because I had to return something in the default case, I thought
I might as well return the more accurate RTYPE_CLASS_PLT,
even if it didn't make any practical difference.)

Richard