Re: bfd_get_relocated_section_contents on hppa and ia64

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Camm,

> We have a macosx patch contributed a long time ago which I'd greatly
> appreciate merging or removing.

Can you point me at this in the mail archive - I will have a look at it. 
 (I am terribly behind in answering emails - sorry!)

> We have mips, mipsel, and alpha modifications which only require one
> change to the bfd tree, namely to make the howto struct non-constant,
> so the special function can be altered.  We then use
> sfaslbfd_{mips,alpha}.c from within GCL.  I'd be most happy to
> contribute this code if you would consider using it and maintaining
> it.

Please do so - if it is relatively simple then it is unlikely to pose a 
large maintenance burden and so there should not be any objections to it.

> On ia64, hppa, the relocation algorithm terminates in the error shown,
> which I will try to detail on bugzilla.  I don't believe this is a
> programming error, rather this routine was never written for these
> cpu's because it is never used by the linker.  This is my
> understanding only.

Fair enough.  By the way are you aware that the readelf program has its 
own relocation processing code which is a lot simpler and might be more 
suitable for your application ?  (Currently this code is not exported in 
a library but that could be changed).

Cheers
  Nick