RE: SH relocation differences in older versions of the binutils

[Jeff Baker <jbaker at qnx dot com>]

A few questions, if I may.

Would I be correct in saying that the reason that the ABIVERSION was not
incremented with this change is because it was ultimately considered a huge
bug fix instead of a new ABI?

Aside from parsing the relocs and attempting to determine which version of
the table they're using, can anyone recommend a way to determine whether an
object uses the old relocs or new?  Right now we're looking for a way to
dynamically translate the reloc table to the new relocs at link time.

> AHA.  That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 2:30 PM
> > To: jbaker@qnx.com
> > Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: SH relocation differences in older versions of the binutils
> >
> >
> > > Does anyone know/remember what would have changed with the handling of
> > > relocations for SH between these two versions of the binutils?
> >
> > You'll want to read through this thread:
> >
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-08/msg00271.html