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Re: Patch: Zero out the allocated dynamic content space.

To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
Subject: Re: Patch: Zero out the allocated dynamic content space.
From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:13:40 -0700
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <20000818001431.A8080@valinux.com> <20000818151422.4688.qmail@daffy.airs.com> <20000818093500.A20391@valinux.com>

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:35:00AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I have no arguments with that. But as Alan has pointed out, it is not
> an easy job to do.

Actually, it isn't that bad.  Both the alpha and ia64 ports do this
correctly: record how many relocations of what class against which
symbols, and then compute the size only in size_dynamic_sections.
Which happens after all the symbol visibility changes have happened.

r~

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