add vtable relocs for Alpha
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@zembu.com
Mon Feb 19 12:33:00 GMT 2001
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> > 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].
>
> Is any architecture doing it this way already?
No. This should be written in a manner which causes all architectures
to start using it automatically.
> Or is this approach
> documented anywhere?
No.
Ian
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