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Re: pic patch for arm-elf
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:17:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: pic patch for arm-elf
- References: <1067212368.829.32.camel@kc.cam.armlinux.org>
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:52:48PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> This patch implements GC for GOT and PLT relocs in the elf32-arm
> backend. One effect of this is to avoid a spurious R_ARM_NONE reloc
> which was blighting glibc by causing libc.so to be marked as
> DT_TEXTREL.
>
> It also replaces the code sequence used for PLT thunks with a more
> efficient version, which can make a significant difference on some
> processors.
>
> May I check this in?
>
> Thanks
>
> p.
>
FYI, I've been using this patch as a base for some work on interworking
shared libraries, and I haven't had any problems with it. And it makes
things much easier :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer