add vtable relocs for Alpha

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Mon Feb 19 11:09:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:41:14AM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Richard, in which way should it be rewritten?  What should be done in
> > general with new targets?
> 
> It should be rewritten to not use relocation entries.  Using
> relocation entries requires changes to every single ELF target file.
> 
> Instead, the vtable information should be stored in special sections.
> The linker should read the information out of those sections.  This
> can be done in generic code in elflink.[ch].

Exactly.


r~



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