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

[Jan Beulich]

On 13.03.2026 17:10, 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

I expect other replies have already clarified the situation? (Sorry, I had
taken a few days off.)

Jan