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Re: Another relocation oddness


> FYI there was a GDB discussion about ET_EXEC relocations (in vmlinux),
> Alan Modra's advice from it:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2006-08/msg00144.html

Indeed, for making use of it for debugging they are just irrelevant.

> But IIUC the checking vs. relocating operations are orthogonal here.

Right.  This is really an academic discussion about the extremes of what
dwarflint could do to be a thorough checker of toolchain bugs including in
the --emit-relocs behavior of ld.


Thanks,
Roland

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