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Re: mips64 n32 and n64 suport in elf/
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 14 Mar 2003 02:29:34 -0300
- Subject: Re: mips64 n32 and n64 suport in elf/
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200303140509.h2E59BR09910@magilla.sf.frob.com>
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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