binutils: "unexpected reloc type 0x17" on sparc

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:11:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I was under the impression that R_SPARC_UA{32,64,16} should never show
> up as a dynamic reloc.

Why wouldn't they show up in dynamic relocs?  There's no other point
for having them!  They are a speed optimization for the dynamic linker,
so that it needn't assume R_SPARC_32 may be unaligned.

> If this is OK, then this binutils change breaks every Sparc/Linux
> system out there since no GLIBC version (even today in CVS) handles
> these dynamic relocs.

Too bad, as this binutils change is required for things to work
on Solaris, which otherwise gets SIGBUS on the unaligned write.


r~