[PATCH] Add/update VxWorks targets for bfd

Jerome Guitton guitton@act-europe.fr
Tue Nov 25 05:50:00 GMT 2003


Phil Edwards (phil@codesourcery.com):

> Just for your information:
> 
> Jerome Guitton wrote:
> >Phil Edwards (phil@codesourcery.com):
> >
> >I think ARM/VxWorks5.5 expects RELA relocation entries, and GNU AS
> >generates REL if configured for arm-elf.
> 
> One of the selling points of the latest VxWorks tools is that they are
> using more standard ABIs, e.g., REL instead of RELA.

Interesting, and good to know. Thank you.

BTW, I don't think there is any way to force the binutils to generate RELA
for arm-elf, right? Would that make sense to add this support? If so, I would
try to submit a patch to implement that. I already have something working,
but it needs some cleanup before being reviewed.

-- 
Jerome



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