Initial MIPS patch for GOLD - version 3

Richard Sandiford rdsandiford@googlemail.com
Sun Jan 29 12:13:00 GMT 2012


John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> writes:
> On 01/27/2012 05:54 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> Aleksandar Simeonov <Aleksandar.Simeonov@RT-RK.com> writes:
>
>>> - MIPS needs to have PT_NULL segment to be last in list of segments.
>
>> Why would we ever have a PT_NULL segment?
>
> It's a way to insert a "comment" into the Phdrs.  Such a comment
> can be convenient for extensions or special cases that the usual
> tools did not anticipate.

In this case it's for the prelinker:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-10/msg00174.html

Richard



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