Re: [ARM] BE8 support in relocations

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at codesourcery dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:59:36PM +0100, Christophe LYON wrote:
> I think this can happen when relocating the stubs.
> Actually I am making some tests around arm_build_one_stub(), where
> you can read this comment [not sure who wrote it]:
> 
> /* Note: _bfd_final_link_relocate doesn't handle these relocations
>    properly.  We should probably use this function unconditionally,
>    rather than only for certain relocations listed in the enclosing
>    conditional, for the sake of consistency.  */
> 
> Thus I am trying to call elf32_arm_final_link_relocate, and I am
> facing the problem mentioned above.

If the mapping symbols are placed in the right location, then be8 is
handled much later: in elf32_arm_write_section.  Nothing should be
byteswapped at the point of elf32_arm_final_link_relocate.

Maybe those mapping symbols don't end up in the map used by
elf32_arm_write_section?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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