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Re: [PATCH] MIPS/ld: Calculate DT_RELSZ correctly.


David Daney wrote:
> As outlined in this thread:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-05/msg00624.html
> 
> The 2.16 ld cannot correctly link the libgcj component of gcc 4.0.0.
> 
> The problem is that DT_RELSZ was being calculated before all of the 
> relocations had been added to the dynamic relocations section.  This 
> resulted in a value of DT_RELSZ that was too small.  The result was that 
>  the runtime loader did not do all the relocations that were needed.
> 
> 
> 2005-05-23  David Daney  <ddaney@avtrex.com>
> 
>         * elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_finish_dynamic_sections):  Move
>         calculation of DT_RELSZ to occur after all dynamic relocations
>         are created.
> 
> 
> Tested on the CVS HEAD mipsel-linux cross running on i686-pc-linux-gnu 
> with make -k check showing regressions.
> 
> O.K. to commit?  Should this go on the 2.16 branch as well?

Ok.


Thiemo


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