RE: ld and relocatable vs. absolute

["Chuck Meade" <chuckmeade at yahoo dot com>]

I am using binutils 2.10.  I did a source search for "emitrelocations"
and it is not there.  To what flag are you referring below?

Thanks,
Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Momchil Velikov
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 6:13 PM
> To: chuckmeade@yahoo.com
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: ld and relocatable vs. absolute
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Meade <chuckmeade@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> Chuck> Several linkers (including Diab and Green Hills) support the
> Chuck> creation of a fully-linked executable image that at the same
> Chuck> time retains relocation information, allowing it to be 
> Chuck> relocated to a dynamically determined memory address at load
> Chuck> time by an on-target loader.
> 
> Chuck> Such an image would not have unresolved references, it would
> Chuck> just be relocatable.
> 
> Chuck> I would like to be able to accomplish the same with ld for
> Chuck> PowerPC.  Has anyone out there done this?  Any tips?
> 
> It is already there. See
> 
> 2000-05-18  Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
> 
> 	* elflink.h (elf_bfd_final_link, elf_link_input_bfd): When emiting
> 	relocs for an executable, ensure that they are virtual addresses.
> 
> 2000-05-17  S. Bharadwaj Yadavalli  <sby@scrugs.lkg.dec.com>
> 	    Rick Gorton	            <gorton@scrugs.lkg.dec.com>
> 	
> 	* elflink.h: Add emitrelocations support: when enabled, relocation
> 	information and relocation sections are put into final output
> 	executables.  If the emitrelocations flag is set, do the following:
> 	(elf_bfd_final_link): Emit relocation sections.
> 	(elf_link_input_bfd): Compute relocation section contents.
> 	(elf_gc_sections): Don't clean relocation sections.
> 
> Regards,
> -velco
> 

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