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Re: ld broken on Solaris 8

To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
Subject: Re: ld broken on Solaris 8
From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:15:15 +0200
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <200105111717.f4BHHHF00244@delius.kettenis.local> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105111513170.6423-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:30:39PM -0400, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> Your interpretation sounds reasonable.  In my example (a static
> relocation in .data) this would be pointless, unless it causes ld to
> substitute an unaligned variant of the load insn (if such a thing exists
> on SPARC).

SPARC does not have unaligned load insn (generates an exception, the OS can
emulate it but usually does not and if it does, it is expensive).
R_SPARC_UA{16,32,64} is there for the dynamic linker and makes sense only if
r_offset is not aligned.

	Jakub

References:
- Re: ld broken on Solaris 8
  - From: Mark Kettenis
- Re: ld broken on Solaris 8
  - From: Jeff Sturm

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