section-relative relocs on ia64 (was: Re: Why does slurp_ia64_unwind_table complain unwind symbol type?)

David Mosberger davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Wed Oct 27 10:03:00 GMT 2004


>>>>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:13:51 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:

  HJ> Here is a patch.

Ah, that looks good (and easy).

  HJ> H.J.
  HJ> +	  /* Make output-section relative to section where the symbol
  HJ> +	     is defined. PR 475  */
  HJ> +	  value -= sym_sec->output_section->vma;

This is automatically guaranteed to never go negative, even for
corner-cases, such as weak symbols, right?

	--david



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