[PATCH] Fix lazy setting for PLTREL overlap cpus.

David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Thu Apr 5 22:22:00 GMT 2012


From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:44:59 -0400

> The added assumption that you don't spell out is that DT_JMPREL
> follows *immediately* after DT_REL.
> 
> Are we guaranteed that?

Always.

> I asked Cary Coutant who is working on gold/incremental-linking about
> this and he said the incremental linker always recreates the
> relocation table so on an incremental link this should be true.
> 
> If we agree that (a) is true, that there is never any gap produced by
> binutils, then I'm OK with this change as long as you add a comment
> stating the new assumption.

Great, I'll add the comment and commit this then.

Thanks!



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