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Re: Adjust relocation type secrel for w64 and fix base-file/dlltool functionality
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Kai Tietz <Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:44:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: Adjust relocation type secrel for w64 and fix base-file/dlltool functionality
- References: <OFE97AE917.D41D73F2-ONC12574B8.00274075-C12574B8.0027EB4D@onevision.de>
Hi Kai,
The interesting point about this approach is, that we could get rid of the
need to have relocations in debug-section and dwarf2 information at all
and that 32-bit dwarf2 can be supported for w64, too.
Hmm, well my feeling is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". The current
method works right ? Even if it is not the best solution, I would
prefer to keep it as introducing a new system is very likely to
introduce new bugs.
Otherwise w64 has to
use 64-bit dwarf2, which consumes much more space.
Surely the space restrictions on 64-bit systems are much less serious ?
I.e. I would assume that any 64-bit system would have a large amount
of memory - otherwise why use 64-bits ?
Cheers
Nick