ELF st_other

[Ulrich Drepper]

Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au> writes:

>   I'm about to commit this.  I was poking around here toying with the idea
> of using a bit in st_other during final link to flag local syms that have
> dynamic relocs against them.  The idea is to save a hash lookup on all
> relocs against local syms.  See bfd/elf-hppa.h:elf_hppa_relocate_section. 

You mean setting a bit the dynamic linker can use?  If yes, explain to
me how this should work.  If it is set only in object files I don't
think it is convincing enough.  Those bits are rare and will probably
be used officially in future.

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