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[binutils-gdb] MIPS/BFD: Update outdated comment about o32 R_MIPS_PC32 reloc support
- From: Maciej W.Rozycki <macro at sourceware dot org>
- To: bfd-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 13 Jun 2016 16:06:14 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] MIPS/BFD: Update outdated comment about o32 R_MIPS_PC32 reloc support
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0c9663cbd41c27a8e20ca88a53ba3deae374f1d8
commit 0c9663cbd41c27a8e20ca88a53ba3deae374f1d8
Author: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
Date: Mon Jun 13 16:29:00 2016 +0100
MIPS/BFD: Update outdated comment about o32 R_MIPS_PC32 reloc support
Complement:
commit b47468a6dbd1b54c44c2edc0f7db64a073d894ea
Author: Catherine Moore <clm@redhat.com>
Date: Mon May 6 15:25:45 2013 +0000
and the return of support for R_MIPS_PC32 there.
bfd/
* elf32-mips.c (elf_mips_gnu_pcrel32): Update comment.
Diff:
---
bfd/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
bfd/elf32-mips.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 5654b8f..8e9ad82 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2016-06-13 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
+
+ * elf32-mips.c (elf_mips_gnu_pcrel32): Update comment.
+
2016-06-13 Cupertino Miranda <cmiranda@synospsy.com>
* elf32-arc.c (elf_arc_relocate_section): Fixed condition.
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-mips.c b/bfd/elf32-mips.c
index 752f386..5654fb6 100644
--- a/bfd/elf32-mips.c
+++ b/bfd/elf32-mips.c
@@ -1548,9 +1548,9 @@ static reloc_howto_type elf_mips_gnu_rel16_s2 =
TRUE); /* pcrel_offset */
/* 32 bit pc-relative. This was a GNU extension used by embedded-PIC.
- It was co-opted by mips-linux for exception-handling data. It is no
- longer used, but should continue to be supported by the linker for
- backward compatibility. (GCC stopped using it in May, 2004.) */
+ It was co-opted by mips-linux for exception-handling data. GCC stopped
+ using it in May, 2004, then started using it again for compact unwind
+ tables. */
static reloc_howto_type elf_mips_gnu_pcrel32 =
HOWTO (R_MIPS_PC32, /* type */
0, /* rightshift */