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Re: run-elflint-self.sh fails on alpha
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:06:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: run-elflint-self.sh fails on alpha
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:12 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > /* Legal values for st_other field of Elf64_Sym. */
> > > #define STO_ALPHA_NOPV 0x80 /* No PV required. */
> > > #define STO_ALPHA_STD_GPLOAD 0x88 /* PV only used for initial ldgp. */
> >
> > If you are using these, should ELF64_ST_VISIBILITY be extended?
>
> No, these are not visibility flags. What we need here is a new ebl hook to
> let the backend accept more st_other bits.
Something like:
/* Check whether only valid bits are set on the st_other symbol flag. */
bool ebl_check_st_other_bits (Ebl *ebl, unsigned char st_other);
I got a patch for that on the mjw/ebl_special_other branch.
Hope I hooked things up correctly.
Cheers,
Mark