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Re: mips64 n32 and n64 suport in elf/


On Mar 14, 2003, Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com> wrote:

>> I don't see any way to do prelinking work with REL, anyway, since the
>> addend takes up the very location where we could possibly store the
>> prelinked addresses.

> That is true.  That's why for REL-using platforms like i386 prelink
> converts REL to RELA.  So the ultimately right thing is to have that
> support for mips as well, and have elf_machine_rela support for mips.

But if RELA dynamic relocations are explicitly ruled out by the ABI
specification (which IIRC is the case of mips elf64) you can't really
do that.

> But given that we don't have that support now, this change is fine.

Thanks, I'm putting it in.

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