binutils: "unexpected reloc type 0x17" on sparc

David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
Thu Jun 28 15:21:00 GMT 2001


Richard Henderson writes:
 > 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.

Ok then.

 > > 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.

What I'm really trying to understand is why we've gotten away with not
having this for all this time. :-)

Is this being emitted for something new like stack unwind info or
dwarf2 debugging stuff?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com



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