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Re: [PATCH] bfd: allow negative offsets to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ in elf64 SPARC
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose dot marchesi at oracle dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Cc: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:29:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] bfd: allow negative offsets to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ in elf64 SPARC
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- References: <87k2eghuhz.fsf@oracle.com>
Hi Jose,
> Can you guys think on anything that may break due to this?
Nope. I assume that you have tested it on real hardware ?
> Otherwise, any objection to getting this pushed to binutils?
None - please apply.
Cheers
Nick
> bfd/ChangeLog:
>
> 2016-09-12 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
>
> * elfxx-sparc.c (_bfd_sparc_elf_size_dynamic_sections): Allow
> negative offsets to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ if the .got section is
> bigger than 0x1000 bytes.