Patch: Zero out the allocated dynamic content space.

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Fri Aug 18 12:13:00 GMT 2000


On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:35:00AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I have no arguments with that. But as Alan has pointed out, it is not
> an easy job to do.

Actually, it isn't that bad.  Both the alpha and ia64 ports do this
correctly: record how many relocations of what class against which
symbols, and then compute the size only in size_dynamic_sections.
Which happens after all the symbol visibility changes have happened.


r~


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