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Re: ELF st_other
- To: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: ELF st_other
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 12 Jul 2000 09:02:33 -0700
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007122052180.26924-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au> writes:
> I'm about to commit this. I was poking around here toying with the idea
> of using a bit in st_other during final link to flag local syms that have
> dynamic relocs against them. The idea is to save a hash lookup on all
> relocs against local syms. See bfd/elf-hppa.h:elf_hppa_relocate_section.
You mean setting a bit the dynamic linker can use? If yes, explain to
me how this should work. If it is set only in object files I don't
think it is convincing enough. Those bits are rare and will probably
be used officially in future.
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