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Re: [PATCH] glibc 2.2.94 - hppa - plt relocations
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:13:29PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
>
> It may be possible to redesign the relocations, or at least the
> hppa dl-machine.h code, but I don't have time and I think the approach
> used in the patch is the cleanest available. eg. another approach
> would be to add the load address to the ltp entry, but RELA targets
> shouldn't be reading section contents. This would also require a
> binutils change as ld currently leaves the field zero.
>
> I'll also note that the patch as it stands should be rejected for
> another reason, and that is that it isn't complete. eg. I needed to
> patch sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h elf_machine_rela_relative to add the
> extra param.
IA 64 had the similar problem when it was first mergred. Shouldn't
HPPA try something similar like DL_RELOCATION_NEEDS_MAP?
H.J.