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Re: x32 psABI draft version 0.2

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:13:55AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> On 02/17/2011 04:14 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Rela is much nicer to work with.
> 
> How is RELA much nicer to work with than REL?

E.g. for prelinking, REL doesn't work at all for most relocations
(with the exception of those that are defined to ignore the addend,
or RELATIVE relocs).  Prelink therefore needs to convert REL back
to RELA in that case.

	Jakub
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