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Re: TI COFFv2 relocations-- seen anything similar?
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz dot cc>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 14 Aug 2002 11:57:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: TI COFFv2 relocations-- seen anything similar?
- References: <333D6554-AA75-11D6-A4C9-003065DC6B50@ghz.cc>
Hi Charles,
> I'm still sorting through my notes, but I think that these
> relocation types form a set of algebraic functions to enable the
> linker to calculate crazy expressions such as "(_function1 - _main)
> >> 16 & 0xFFE0" at link time.
>
> Anyway, does anyone know of another processor+file format
> combination which handles things similarly?
I have heard of similar schemes, but none have been contributed to
binutils so far. So I guess that you are free to go ahead and invent
a new wheel :-)
Cheers
Nick