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Re: "relocation addend field"


Hi Nick,

Nick Clifton wrote:


> Are you using REL type relocations ?  (As opposed to RELA).  If so,
> then the addend is supposed to be located in the word being relocated
> and the addend value in the reloc structure, as displayed by objdump,
> will be zero.
> 
> If you are using RELA type relocations, then there must be a bbug
> somewhere that is stopping the addend from being written into the
> reloc structure in the object file.

   Thanks for help.

   In bfd/efl32-mytarget.c, I did this

	#define USE_REL 0

   Is this enough to use RELA?

Thanks


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