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Re: RFC on removing R_PARISC_DIR21L in DSO for hppa?


On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:15:02AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:39:36AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > Would it be valid to warn again when DIR21L relocations are about
> > to make it into the final link?
> 
> Yes.  Since glibc's ld.so doesn't handle them, you could merge the
> DIR17F thru DIR21L cases with the DPREL ones immediately above.  ie.
> turn the warning into a hard error.
> 
> I think when I wrote that code, I was distinguishing relocs that could
> be handled by ld.so from those that can't (DPREL are only valid in the
> main app).  It's a rather pedantic distinction when ld.so doesn't
> provide support though!
> 
> I'm not sure why the warning was turned off for DIR17F .. DIR21L.  It
> was probably an over-enthusiastic change when disabling other warnings.

That's what I thought, I'll stew my patch a bit more to make sure I've
got the hard error in the right place, then I'll submit a patch.

Thanks Alan,

Cheers,
Carlos.


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