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Re: [davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com: Re: [PATCH] i386 vsyscall DSO implementation]


On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:57:58PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> You certainly cannot change the distance between 2 loadable segments.
> If you did, it would e.g. break all @gprel relocations in one of the
> segments, so I don't see why segrel shouldn't be supported accross segments.

There are many other examples. If say RX segment contains PCREL* relocations
against local symbols in RW segment, you don't end up with any dynamic
relocation either.

	Jakub


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