Re: [PATCH] elf/elf.h: Add new 386 and X86_64 relocations from binutils.

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 05:03:28AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:55 AM, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > The following new 386 and X86_64 were added to binutils. They are
>> > non-dynamic relocations, so don't need direct handling in glibc.
>> > But other programs, like elfutils, use the glibc elf.h definitions
>> > for the names and numbers when inspecting ET_REL files.
>> >
>> > R_386_GOT32X was proposed in
>> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ia32-abi/GbJJskkid4I
>> >
>> > X86_64_GOTPCRELX and R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX were proposed in
>> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/x86-64-abi/n9AWHogmVY0
>> >
>> > There also used to be R_X86_64_PC32_BND (39) and R_X86_64_PLT32_BND (40)
>> > but those already got deprecated and now the numbers are simply reserved.
>>
>> We can't use them for anything else and linker still supports them,  But
>> assembler won't generate them.
>
> OK, if we cannot reuse them, then it makes sense to just add them
> and mark them deprecated in the comments. Then at least we got the
> name and number for tools to recognize them.
>

I prefer to leave them out since tools won't know how to handle them if
they haven't known already.



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H.J.