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Re: PPC relocs in shared libraries
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:04:35AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:44:37PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:39:00PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > So we're looking at RELA sections. RELA does not use the in-section
> > > data, does it?
> >
> > RELA relocs shouldn't, but see eg. current glibc
> > sysdeps/ia64/dl-machine.h:elf_machine_rela_relative :-(
>
> Aha. Looks like prelinker stuff, I see...
Prelink is innocent. Screwed up ABIs are guilty. See the recent SPARC
problems with R_SPARC_RELATIVE, and these two are not the only ones.
> > Note that there is one good reason to apply the reloc to the
> > section contents as well as emitting a reloc and that is glibc's
> > ELF_MACHINE_REL_RELATIVE optimization. Prior to seeing that one
> > I was inclined to say the section contents should be left at zero.
> > Not that this is particularly relevant to debug sections.
>
> It's pretty nice for GDB too. But GDB needs to handle either way, so
> it doesn't really care.
I still don't understand why GDB needs to care about reloc sections in
ET_DYN/ET_EXEC. Most arches don't generate them and it has to understand
the debug format anyway (and thus knows where to add l_addr and where not).
Jakub