Re: A relocation problem in shared objects for SH

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <ork8ccdzm4.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>you write:
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  > On Sep 16, 2000, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
  > 
  > > On Sep 16, 2000, kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> wrote:
  > >> One point of this bug may be that it's exposed in the case of the
  > >> relocateable object which is generated form several objects by ld -r
  > >> command.
  > 
  > > Right on the nail!  Indeed, this causes the bug to show up.
  > 
  > >> So I think that our ugly patch for elf32-sh.c (or something else) is
  > >> still needed.
  > 
  > > Yep.  I'll keep looking for something else for a while :-)
  > 
  > Here's the ``something else'' I've come up with.  It fixes the
  > relocatable link, so that it doesn't generate relocations with both
  > an in-place value and an addend.  I've tried to relocate a lot of PIC
  > and non-PIC object files, and it always did The Right Thing (TM), so I
  > guess this is the way to go.  Ok to install?
  > 
  > 
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  > Content-Type: text/x-patch
  > Content-Disposition: inline; filename=shpic-bfd-relocatable.patch
  > 
  > Index: bfd/ChangeLog
  > from  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
  > 
  > 	* elf32-sh.c (sh_elf_relocate_section): Use
  > 	_bfd_final_link_relocate to apply the relocation against a section
  > 	symbol, when doing relocatable links.
Excellent.  Please install.

Thanks,
jeff