relocs_compatible hook considered harmful

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Thu Apr 24 07:06:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:09:25AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Also, _bfd_elf_default_relocs_compatible does exactly as prior to
> relocs_compatible, so I'm a little mystified by your subject line.

Yes, I wrote the subject before I'd properly figured out what was
going on, sorry.

As for the rest, I simply can't read.

Still... if a file is incompatible enough that we can't check its
relocs, why're we telling the backend to process them anyway?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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