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Re: Sorting entries in dynamic relocation
- To: Koundinya K <knk at dde dot dk>
- Subject: Re: Sorting entries in dynamic relocation
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 08 Mar 2000 18:11:37 +0100
- Cc: ian at zembu dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <38C6EBA3.7FFBA70E@dde.dk>
>>>>> 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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