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Re: linker relocation of debug information

> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:48:18 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>

> I don't remember what Geoff's objection was.  Mind reminding me?

I don't remember either (it's surely in the mail archives), but one
objection is that some versions of the Sun linker add the address in
the memory location to the computed symbol value, so the memory
location needs to be zeroed for correct behaviour on systems with RELA
relocations.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
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