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> >In fact as far as Linux is concerned it probably wouldn't be an especially > >big deal to introduce RELA in parallel with REL if we wanted to. I think > >there were rumblings that the ARM SDT compiler was primarily using RELA, > > No. ARM only uses REL. We see no advantage to RELA. However, our ELF > linker (not yet released) handles RELA or any mix of REL and RELA > (as the ELF standard seems to intend). > > AFAIK, Green Hills uses RELA only in its ARM ELF tool chain. > > >so we > >might end up doing it in order to be able to interwork with them. Our > dynamic > >linker can be taught to handle binaries with an arbitrary mix of reloc > types, > >I think, and I imagine binutils can be made to handle this too if it doesn't > >already. The BFD when configured for sh-elf supports both REL and RELA relocation types although sh-elf-gcc itself only uses REL. Toshi