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Re: MIPS relocation is REL?
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: "K. Ahmed Feroz" <feroz at acmet dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 25 May 2004 12:07:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: MIPS relocation is REL?
- References: <003b01c44245$c2445010$7200a8c0@FEROZ>
"K. Ahmed Feroz" <feroz@acmet.com> writes:
> I think all MIPS processor using "REL" relocations instead of RELA.
Actually some versions of MIPS ELF support both. Search for RELA in
bfd/elf64-mips.c.
> Can anyone provide me the reason why it is "REL" instead "RELA"?
The original MIPS ELF Processor Supplement required REL relocs, not
RELA relocs. That was probably a mistake, but it was one made a long
time ago.
Ian