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Re: [PATCH] Skip dynamic relocations
- From: H.J. Lu <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:42:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip dynamic relocations
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 09:00 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Since r_offset in dynamic relocation isn't section relative, we can't
>> check it like relocations in relocatable objets. This fixes:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205789
>
> I don't believe this is a bug in eu-elflint. It is a bug in gnu ld,
> which we already work around when --gnu-ld is given. Which is what sets
> known_broken in the code you are patching. If set, that will already
> skip this test. See https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/wiki/ElflintGNU
>
I assume all those test binaries in elfutils which elflint is run on don't have
dynamic relocations.
Given a binary, how do you know if --gnu-ld should be passed to elflint?
--
H.J.