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Re: x32 psABI draft version 0.2
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:35:26AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 16.02.11 at 21:04, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > On 02/16/2011 11:22 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I updated x32 psABI draft to version 0.2 to change x32 library path
> >> from lib32 to libx32 since lib32 is used for ia32 libraries on Debian,
> >> Ubuntu and other derivative distributions. The new x32 psABI is
> >> available from:
> >>
> >> https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/home
> >>
> >
> > I'm wondering if we should define a section header flag (sh_flags)
> > and/or an ELF header flag (e_flags) for x32 for the people unhappy about
> > keying it to the ELF class...
>
> Thanks for supporting this!
>
> Besides that I also wonder why all the 64-bit relocations get
> marked as LP64-only. It is clear that some of them can be useful
> in ILP32 as well, and there's no reason to preclude future uses
> even if currently no-one can imagine any.
>
> Furthermore, it seems questionable to continue to require rela
> relocations when for all normal ones (leaving aside the 8- and 16-
> bit ones) the addend can fit in the relocated field.
REL is horrible pain, we shouldn't ever add new REL targets.
Jakub