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Re: ppc relocs


On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:56:52AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I have checked in various changes and both TLS and non-TLS builds on PPC32
> pass make check for me.  I have made some changes to PPC64 code too, but
> not tested that.
> 
> I spent a while trying to figure out the right thing for the 16-bit relocs,
> and then punted.  I think these relocs are not produced in PIC code linked
> with ld -shared.  Is that right?  Does the PPC32 or PPC64 ABI permit
> non-PIC code in shared libraries?  If not, then we don't need to handle these.

At least PPC32 AFAIK permits non-PIC code in shared libraries. You
cannot use usually too many such libraries because of the 24bit branch
limitation then.

	Jakub


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