This is the mail archive of the binutils@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the binutils project.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: powerpc64-linux finishing touches

> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:34:04 +0930
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
> Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
> Mail-Followup-To: Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>,
> 	binutils@sources.redhat.com
> Content-Disposition: inline
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i
> 
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:24:57AM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > > Note that ppc32 could never have used this
> > > reloc anyway, as dst_mask was zero!
> > 
> > I believe it did work, I think because none of the howtos were
> > actually used.
> 
> How can that be?  elf32-ppc.c:ppc_elf_relocate_section calls
> _bfd_final_link_relocate and from there, _bfd_relocate_contents,
> which uses the howto.

Oh, wait, I see.  ld.so uses the _LO and _HA version of the relocs,
which did work before.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]