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Re: mips: don't duplicate options section


On Oct 20, 2002, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Linking a very complex non-IRIX MIPS ELF64 shared library, containing
>> many object files with their own options sections, some of them having
>> undergone ld -r, fails because not enough space was allocated in the
>> program headers for the options section.

> What will be used on this non-IRIX platform to replace .MIPS.options?
> Why is it good to do this differently?

It is not replaced, it's just packed together with other sections in
the same segment, as opposed to being a separate segment right after
the program header like IRIX requires.  I confess I don't know whether
this is actually a good idea.  I don't know of anything the kernel
might do with .MIPS.options that might require (or even help) to keep
it in a separate segment.

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