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Re: oops, powerpc .plt
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 10:55:03 +0200
- Subject: Re: oops, powerpc .plt
At 07:12 08.05.2002, Alan Modra wrote:
>Additionally, .got should really be marked executable too,
>as it contains a "blrl" instruction that is used to find the
>.got section.
One thing always made me wonder, since gcc actually produces "bl
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_@local-4" for -fpic, was this blrl initially planned
to end up in the section/page preceding .got? Thus avoiding marking the
whole .got executable?
Franz.