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Re: Fix relro strip test for MIPS

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:49:36AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:05:54PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > There are two unique things about MIPS which conspire to fail the
> > ld -z relro -shared tests (which test that objcopy and strip do not
> > change the binary).  One is that .dynamic is writable and there is no
> > .got.plt section, so a typical shared library has no PT_GNU_RELRO;
> > it gets added and then converted to PT_NULL.  The other is that it
> 
> We shouldn't generate a PT_NULL segment when PT_GNU_RELRO is unused.
> X86 linkers should handle it correctly.

What avoids the extra segment?  There's definitely code in elf.c to
convert PT_GNU_RELRO to PT_NULL.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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