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Re: [PATCH] PR ld/17618: Check PC-relative offset overflow in PLT entry
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> Some linker tests need to allocate more than 4GB memory,
>> which only work if linker is an ELF64 linker.
>
> I would certainly hope such tests work, for example, with a linker built
> for 64-bit Windows host, which would be a PE .exe file, not an ELF file at
> all.
>
Yes, a patch to detect 64-bit linker binary on Windows is needed.
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H.J.