Oracle library fix
Jose E. Marchesi
jose.marchesi@oracle.com
Fri Dec 10 00:29:50 GMT 2021
Hi Alan.
> Does anyone know whether the following 1995 code is still needed?
> My guess is that the "incomprehensible reason" mentioned in the
> comment is that some object had relocation sections created by hand.
> With my recent commit b6d1f70cc7e any such relocation section should
> have a proper sh_link field, but of course if people are still using
> constructs like
>
> .section .rel.text,""
> .4byte reloc_offset
> .4byte reloc_number + sym_index
>
> then I'll need to delay this cleanup for some years.
I just asked internally about this.
Will let you know what I find out.
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