[PATCH 4/8] bfd/ELF: fold BFD_RELOC_<arch>_GOTOFF*

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026, Jens Remus wrote:

> On 3/13/2026 10:54 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > For many of the cases there's no need to have separate relocs per arch;
> > just like for other more or less generic ones a single one (per purpose;
> > a 64-bit generic one is being introduced) will do. Arm64, C-Sky, and
> > KVX - sadly - continue to be exceptions.
> 
> Hello Jan, hopefully you don't mind my perhaps newbie question:
> 
> Isn't the removal of e.g. BFD_RELOC_390_GOTOFF64 breaking the existing
> external BFD API?  At least all of these relocations are documented in
> the BFD documentation:
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/bfd.html#index-BFD_005fRELOC_005f390_005fGOTOFF64

Of course not; if it had been part of an important external ABI, 
there would have been coverage in the binutils testsuite and Jan 
would have noticed that way.

(Yes, that was tongue-in-cheek and all that, just hoping to make 
a certain point wrt. test-case importance, and FAOD not directed 
at neither you nor Jan.)

brgds, H-P