Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?

[Kazuhiro Inaoka]

Thanks, eveyone!

I will suggest to port m32r-linux.
I need to create new relocations. (GOT, PLT ...)
I have to implement in the BFD rule.

See you a new thread!

Kazuhiro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Evans" <dje@transmeta.com>
> 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.