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Re: Tweak for i386 vxworks support


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:02:49PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:21:33AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > The VxWorks dynamic loader pretty much only honors R_*_COPY and
> > R_*_JUMP_SLOT relocations in executables - the normal range of relocations
> > are processed in shared libraries.  This works except for some cases
> > involving weak symbols (which VxWorks doesn't use), and when ld decides to
> > eliminate a copy relocation.  So disable that for VxWorks.  I'm trying to
> > persuade them to process relocations more normally, but no luck so far.
> > 
> > Is this patch OK?
> 
> No, I think you'll need to look at other places that invoke
> ELIMINATE_COPY_RELOCS.  I suggest 
> 
> #define ELIMINATE_COPY_RELOCS(HTAB) (!(HTAB)->is_vxworks)

Uh, no, I'm not thinking straight.  Patch is OK.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre


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