[patch] readelf: Incorrect interpretation of MIPS64 relocations

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:42:26PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  When parsing DWARF2 information readelf interprets MIPS64 symbol indices 
> incorrectly.  "Skipping unexpected symbol type" messages result.  MIPS64 
> relocations are laid out a bit unusually, due to the need to encode three 
> relocation types in a single entry.  We have suitable code to deal with it 
> when dumping relocations in dump_relocations(), but it's missing from 
> debug_apply_rela_addends() which is used for DWARF2 processing.
> 
>  The following patch fixes the problem for me.
> 
> 2005-04-04  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@linux-mips.org>
> 
> 	* readelf.c (debug_apply_rela_addends): Reorder r_info as 
> 	necessary for 64-bit MIPS.
> 
>  OK to apply?

FYI, I had something similar in my pile of
submit-when-you-can-find-a-chance patches.  Rather than duplicating the
code here, I moved it from dump_relocations to slurp_rela_relocs; that
way we won't need to duplicate it elsewhere.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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