HPPA ELF DT_PLTGOT handling

[Nick Hudson]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 21:49, John David Anglin wrote:
> > A much more convenient (from the POV of the dynamic linker) is to always
> > set DT_PLTGOT to a pointer to the GOT. glibc goes searching for the GOT
> > which it would no longer need to do. Is this worth considering?
>
> No.  It would change the ABI and break existing code.

Setting the DT_PLTGOT and GP to a pointer to the GOT wouldn't break the ABI. I 
guess the point is that the binutils linker and HP linkers would do different 
things, though.

If nothing else the comment against DT_PLTGOT should changed.

Nick


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