Re: "relocation addend field"

[xinant at cognigine dot com (Xinan Tang)]

Hi Nick,

Nick Clifton wrote:


> Are you using REL type relocations ?  (As opposed to RELA).  If so,
> then the addend is supposed to be located in the word being relocated
> and the addend value in the reloc structure, as displayed by objdump,
> will be zero.
> 
> If you are using RELA type relocations, then there must be a bbug
> somewhere that is stopping the addend from being written into the
> reloc structure in the object file.


   I think I found the problem. In my elf32-mytarget.c,

   I should use

	#define USE_RELA	1   /* Actually any value is Ok */

   rather than

	#define USE_REL		0

   since nowhere will check the value but some functions do check whether
the symbol is defined or not :(

Thanks

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