Relocs against unalloced sections in shared libraries
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Fri Jan 10 03:30:00 GMT 2003
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:50:51PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:06:05PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > > No other target emits such relocations. Currently, the ppc linker
> >
> > Richard vehemently maintains that they should. He's specifically
> > vetoed this change in the past.
>
> Hmm, but is rth corrent? It seems to me that the only reason debug
> info would need dynamic relocs is if it refers to external syms. But
> by its nature, debug info is describing local entities. In fact,
> allowing ELF shared lib symbol overriding to affect debug info might
> result in confusion.
Well, I'm inclned to agree; and when GDB resolves them it takes care to
use only the local symbol table. But you get to discuss it with him :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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