Re: Commit: PR 22875: Stop strip corrupting unknown relocs

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>]

Hi Nick,

> >  Hmm, the o32 MIPS target backend however does not issue the "unsupported 
> > relocation" error, and neither does the i386 target AFAICS.  It looks to 
> > me like the reason is these targets do not support the RELA relocation 
> > format, as further indicated by `readelf -r':
> 
> > Again, I think it's up to the test case to get it right when encoding 
> > relocations manually.
> 
> The binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/strip-13.d file already has exceptions
> for other targets that only support REL relocations.
> 
> Is there a way to determine o32 MIPS targets from the target triple ?

 Yes, though it has to be extracted from bfd/config.bfd and coded in TCL 
somewhere.  In commit 86b24e15c45b ("MIPS/LD/testsuite: Correct 
comm-data.exp test ABI/emul/endian arrangement") I did a related 
arrangement and coded the list of ABIs supported by each MIPS target in 
ld/testsuite/ld-mips-elf/comm-data.exp, but that does not indicate which 
ABI is the default.  My plan has actully been to code the defaults 
sometime as that will be required to get clean results from 
ld/testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips-elf.exp on some MIPS targets.

 NB bfd/config.bfd (targ_defvec) and gas/configure.ac (mips_default_abi) 
provide the same information stored differently, and there actually were 
discrepancies, which I believe I have corrected by now.

  Maciej