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Re: ELF st_other

To: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
Subject: Re: ELF st_other
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:05:34 -0700
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007122052180.26924-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:53:34PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm about to commit this.  I was poking around here toying with the idea
> of using a bit in st_other during final link to flag local syms that have
> dynamic relocs against them.  The idea is to save a hash lookup on all
> relocs against local syms.  See bfd/elf-hppa.h:elf_hppa_relocate_section. 
> Comments?
> 

Before you do it, please make a formal proprosal and well document it.
Please keep in mind that the ELF ABI may use the remaining bits in
st_other in the future. If you make a convincing argument for your
case now, we may be able to defend it in the future.

H.J.

References:
- ELF st_other
  - From: Alan Modra

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