Re: PATCH: Minor ELF32/ia64 cleanup

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> > There seems to be a few oddities here, e.g. a FPTR64 relocation
> > presented to a 32-bit toolchain will create a FPTR32 dynamic relocation
> > for it, and similarly a FPTR32 relocation presented to a 64-bit
> > toolchain will create a FPTR64 dynamic relocation for it.  This is a bit
> > odd, but I suspect these won't occur in practice.  And this is an
> > improvement over what we had before, since at least we correctly get
> > FPTR32 with a 32-bit toolchain which we didn't get before.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
> 
> This could be a problem for some code I found in libffi.  It has:
> 
> 	typedef void * ptr64 __attribute__((mode(DI)));
> 
> You can see my latest proposed GCC patch at:
> 
> 	http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-05/msg00118.html
> 
> This patch results in 64 bit relocations in the 32-bit toolchain, will
> this patch break that functionality?  I have been using the HP linker on
> IA64 HP-UX but I do build binutils to get gas and the other utilities
> (readelf, etc).

I don't think my patch will break ELF32. But if my patch is complete
for ELF32 is a different question.

Steve, can you try my patch with your gcc change on IA64 HP-UX?

Thanks.

H.J.