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Re: [PATCH] Fix ppc32 dl-machine.h

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:13:13 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ppc32 dl-machine.h

> It seems the 2003-03-02 cleanups broke relocs against local symbols on ppc32
> (e.g. a bunch of binutils tests now fail).
> On ppc32 (and sparc32) for those relocs r_addend already includes st_value,
> so ATM glibc adds them in twice.

I can't find anything in the ABI spec to suggest this should be done.  Is
it considered part of the spec, or a binutils bug that we are just stuck with?
I had the impression that this was a sparc-specific bug, not the specified
behavior.  Do other Rela platforms use this meaning?  


Thanks,
Roland

References:
- [PATCH] Fix ppc32 dl-machine.h
  - From: Jakub Jelinek

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