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Re: ELF st_other
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:53:34PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm about to commit this. I was poking around here toying with the idea
> of using a bit in st_other during final link to flag local syms that have
> dynamic relocs against them. The idea is to save a hash lookup on all
> relocs against local syms. See bfd/elf-hppa.h:elf_hppa_relocate_section.
> Comments?
>
Before you do it, please make a formal proprosal and well document it.
Please keep in mind that the ELF ABI may use the remaining bits in
st_other in the future. If you make a convincing argument for your
case now, we may be able to defend it in the future.
H.J.