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Re: MIPS textrel fix

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ths at networkno dot de>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:05:42 -0400
Subject: Re: MIPS textrel fix
References: <20060518213149.GA14720@nevyn.them.org> <446CEF9F.2070403@avtrex.com> <20060519001101.GA1073@networkno.de>

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:11:01AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> The needed relocation types were originally defined for embedded PIC
> MIPS and are not available in the ABI spec, their use for eh_frame
> was an accident. When the removal of embedded PIC support broke the
> toolchain, the fix chosen was to become ABI compatible again.

Right.  I'd forgotten this.  Really, the ABI ought to have the
necessary relocations; but I'm not going to poke my nose in further
right now.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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