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Re: Another relocation oddness
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:20:37 -0700
- Subject: 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