Introducing ELF2.0

The Cuthour cuthour@gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 16:25:43 GMT 2025


Hi

>>> See also the "complex relocation" capability that's been in elfutils for
>>> a long long time, but not widely used by actual ports.  This capability
>>> was added in 2007ish for a target ("mep") whose instruction set was
>>> itself configurable.  See BSF_RELC, STT_RELC etc.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Is there a syntax to write that in gas?
> 
> Some.  Each port would have to enable it individually.  See the #ifdef
> OBJC_COMPLEX_RELC configuration in gas/symbols.c.

If the people on this list, who are struggling with 'complex
relocation,' have an idea of what they would like ELF to become,
I will respect that. In fact, Iwould encourage them to pursue it.




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