Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?
Doug Evans
dje@transmeta.com
Thu Jun 12 16:34:00 GMT 2003
Michael Meissner writes:
> > > Can we change them ?
> >
> > The problem would be incompatibility with already existing m32r object
> > files. (In libraries for instance).
>
> In theory the BFD routines should be able to handle linking modules with REL
> and RELA relocations, but always producing RELA for new code. I suspect you
> would need some amount of code in BFD to handle both, but it shouldn't be that
> great.
Agreed.
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