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Re: Relocs against unalloced sections in shared libraries


Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

|> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:29:50AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> > The debugger will know which bytes to relocate by looking at the
|> > structure while reading the debug information from a shared library.
|> 
|> And how will they do that?

By just adding the load offset.

|> The only match between source symbol and assembler symbol is the
|> relocation.

There are no symbols involved.

|> > No other target emits such relocations.
|> 
|> Alpha does.

Perhaps unnecessarily so.  Executables don't have relocation either, why
should dynamic objects be different?

Andreas.

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