Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:24:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jdp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor fix to ld Message-ID: <199704251724.KAA03675@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970425180308.17354D-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Apr 25, 97 06:04:01 pm
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> > > While I was writing my new kernel linker, I noticed that the > > > relocation_info structures for the members of linker sets had r_length set > > > to zero (indicating byte sized relocations) when the objects being > > > relocated were 32bit. The code in ld.so has a hack (see the definition of > > > REL_SIZE in ld/i386/md.c) to work around this. It would be nice to have > > > correct relocations though and I think this patch does the job: > > > > Raising the object compatability red flag... > > Since it only appears to happen for shared libraries and since ld.so has a > hack to make it completely ignore the r_length field, I am not too worried > about object compatability... OK; provisionally withdrawn (pending an answer to John's question about how you are making it happen...). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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