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Re: [patch] new sh relocs

On Aug 16, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> 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.

Unfortunately we're the ones that got the ABI wrong, and Renesas tools
don't emit any EI_* markers we could use to tell, so we should just
take the risk and change the meaning of relocs we've been generating
with the wrong meaning.

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