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Re: Sorting entries in dynamic relocation


>>>>> Koundinya K writes:

 > Hi Ian,
 >     The current mips code, It looks like the sorting of the entries in
 > the dynamic relocation section is not being done. This is important for
 > the dynamic linker I suppose. Especially when shared libs are generated
 > that contain dynamic relocations.

 > The MIPS ABI says that:

 > (Chapter 5, Pg 5-14)

 > The entries in the dynamic relocation section must be ordered by
 > increasing r_symndx value.

 > In case I need to put some code for this, where could this probably fit
 > into ?.

AFAIR that's only needed for Quickstart - but AFAIK the linker doesn't
support Quickstart and therefore the ordering contstraint is not
needed.

Andreas
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 Andreas Jaeger
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