Re: ELF st_other

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:51:57AM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> > Hi Alan,
> > 
> > :   I'm about to commit this.  I was poking around here toying with the idea
> > : of using a bit in st_other during final link to flag local syms that have
> > : dynamic relocs against them.  The idea is to save a hash lookup on all
> > : relocs against local syms.  See bfd/elf-hppa.h:elf_hppa_relocate_section. 
> > : Comments?
> > 
> > I assume that you mean that the use of this bit will be temporary, ie
> > only for the duration of the final link.  So you do not need
> > "official" space in the st_other field, just a free bit which you can
> > use for a short while ?
> 
> Yes, that was the idea.  No need for official space, but admittedly there
> would be a problem if all the 8 bits became officially used.  Like I said,
> I was just toying with ideas.  There are a number of other possibilities
> available.  eg. Add another field to struct elf_obj_tdata, used in much
> the same manner as local_got.
> 

Please only consider st_other as the last resort.


H.J.