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Re: GNU gcc ld script problem
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:29:25AM -0800, Nathan Field wrote:
> This has been dormant for a while, but will newer binutils put the .stub
> sections into their own section in the final binary? We don't really care
> whether it's called a .plt section, though as Daniel notes the .stub
> sections serve a similar purpose to the PLT so it seems reasonable to use
> that name.
>
> The GNU linker does this for all other archs (at least that I know of),
> why should it not do it for MIPS?
The question is what effect it will have on IRIX's extremely picky
tools. I have no idea; Richard might know...
>
> nathan
>
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:04:27PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > > Nathan Field <ndf@ghs.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > But the contents of the .stub section *are* the PLT for each
> > > > object. I should have been clearer about that. Perhaps the real bug is
> > > > that the compiler is associating .plt sections in objects to .stub
> > > > sections? As far as I can tell the only thing which is put into the .stub
> > > > section is the PLT, but I've only looked at fairly simple test cases.
> > >
> > > In what sense is your .stub section the PLT? When using ELF the PLT
> > > requires special dynamic relocations. Those are normally created
> > > automatically by the linker when it builds the PLT. Do those exist
> > > for your .stub section?
> >
> > No, MIPS does not use _JUMP_SLOT relocations. The .stub entries serve
> > a similar purpose to the PLT, but they work directly out of the .got.
> > Like the .plt, they are linker-generated.
> >
> > The net effect is basically the same.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Nathan Field (ndf@ghs.com) All gone.
>
> But the trouble with analogies is that analogies are like goldfish:
> sometimes they have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
> -- Crispin (from a posting to the Bugtraq mailing list)
>
>
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer