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Re: powerpc64-linux finishing touches
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 22:02:46 +0930
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
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> Hmm, I shouldn't believe comments, or existing gas code for that
> matter. According to the SYS4 PPC ABI and PPC-ELF64 ABI,
> R_PPC{,64}_SECTOFF is a 16 bit reloc. This patch corrects
> both ppc64 and ppc32. Note that ppc32 could never have used this
> reloc anyway, as dst_mask was zero!
I believe it did work, I think because none of the howtos were
actually used.
In fact, I think ld.so uses it, or at least used it.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>