Re: Patch for ppc _SDA_BASE_ value

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>]

   Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:23:36 +0300
   From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>

   >    Well, it's been almost a week with no feedback about this one ...
   >       http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00377.html
   > 
   > I simply don't know.
   > 
   > You are changing the way that ELF linker sections work, and I never
   > understood those in the first place.  I don't have time to learn.
   I don't think so. The linker sections work just as before.

But you changed elf_finish_pointer_linker_section, in a way which
appeared to be significant.

   > I'm troubled by the call to generic_link_add_one_symbol.  It feels
   > wrong to call that after sections have been sized, allocated, and
   > relaxed, although it will probably work.
   But adding a symbol does not affect any section's size, except the
   symbol table section, but anyway its size a computed afterwards.

The size of the dynamic symbol table section, on the other hand, is
computed in size_dynamic_sections.

Ian