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Re: Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?

From: Kazuhiro Inaoka <inaoka dot kazuhiro at renesas dot com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:43:16 +0900
Subject: Re: Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?
References: <014d01c330c9$5d9aed60$2569910a@hoku.renesas.com><16104.20664.342335.392450@casey.transmeta.com> <m3ptljxwuc.fsf@redhat.com>

Hi Nick

From: "Nick Clifton" <nickc@redhat.com>
> Hi Kazuhiro,
> 
> > Would you tell me why M32R target uses REL relocations instead of RELA?
> 
> Because that is what Mitsubishi requested.  They were concerned about
> the size of object files and wanted to use REL relocations as these
> are smaller.
Maybe, we thought that it's good smaller object files as possible. (-_-;)

> > Can we change them ?
> 
> The problem would be incompatibility with already existing m32r object
> files.  (In libraries for instance).
Yes. 

> 
> Cheers
>         Nick
Thanks

Kazuhiro

References:
- Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?
  - From: Kazuhiro Inaoka
- Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?
  - From: Doug Evans
- Re: Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?
  - From: Nick Clifton

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