[PATCH 2/2] z80-elf: support complex relocation symbols

[H. Peter Anvin]

On November 17, 2025 4:07:31 AM PST, Ismael Luceno <ismael@iodev.co.uk> wrote:
>On 24/Oct/2025 09:58, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Either way, the relocation does, for a loadable file, need to be
>> carried into the load format, as you point out, but that is usually
>> handled already by linking with -r and postprocessing the result, as
>> the load format generally isn't ELF but something more like MS-DOS
>> MZ (.exe) format. In this case it would be up to the postprocessor
>> to recognize the relevant expression symbol expressions and turn
>> them into native relocations.
>
>The point was about using ELF all the way.

The point for *whom*? 

Using ELF as much as possible, and *especially* through the linking of the executable is obviously desired, but since Z80 is legacy architecture it is obviously not what Z80 operating systems are going to consume.