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Re: [patch] new sh relocs

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
Cc: ian at airs dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:25:20 +0930
Subject: Re: [patch] new sh relocs
References: <200308152051.h7FKp5b14273@greed.delorie.com> <m3k79e41t2.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> <200308161338.h7GDcj618581@greed.delorie.com>

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:38:45AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > But, but, isn't moving relocs going to break existing object files?
> 
> Sad but true.  At least it's only objects built with relax on.
> Renesas noted such incompatibility in their request to us.

You need to reject old objects then.  EI_OSABI and EI_ABIVERSION were
designed for exactly this purpose.

> Note that there are a lot of other relocs that may need to be moved
> later, too.  The ones I'm moving now are the ones that conflict with
> relocs their compiler currently uses.

Better to move them all now if you can.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

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