Re: Difference between --oformat binary, and objcopy -O binary of --oformat elf32-i386

[Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 07:22:36AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > HJ, it would be nice if x86 implemented something like elf32-ppc.c
> > ppc_elf_unhandled_reloc to give an error at link time for all the
> > relocs that the generic linker can't handle.
> >
> 
> I see:
> 
>  HOWTO (R_PPC_TLSLD,
>          0,                     /* rightshift */
>          2,                     /* size (0 = byte, 1 = short, 2 = long) */
>          32,                    /* bitsize */
>          FALSE,                 /* pc_relative */
>          0,                     /* bitpos */
>          complain_overflow_dont, /* complain_on_overflow */
>          bfd_elf_generic_reloc, /* special_function */
>          "R_PPC_TLSLD",         /* name */
>          FALSE,                 /* partial_inplace */
>          0,                     /* src_mask */
>          0,                     /* dst_mask */
>          FALSE),                /* pcrel_offset */
> 
> 
> Can generic linker handle R_PPC_TLSLD?

Nope.  However, this one is a marker reloc (src_mask and dst_mask both
0 result in no relocation) so it is OK to ignore.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM