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Re: Why does m32r-elf use REL relocations?

Michael Meissner writes:
 > > > Can we change them ?
 > > 
 > > The problem would be incompatibility with already existing m32r object
 > > files.  (In libraries for instance).
 > 
 > In theory the BFD routines should be able to handle linking modules with REL
 > and RELA relocations, but always producing RELA for new code.  I suspect you
 > would need some amount of code in BFD to handle both, but it shouldn't be that
 > great.

Agreed.
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