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Re: [PATCH] Allow Elf_Symndx size not match ELF arch size

To: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>, GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow Elf_Symndx size not match ELF arch size
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 26 Jul 1999 22:38:58 -0700
References: <19990726184904.U5667@mff.cuni.cz>
Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)

Jakub send a patch to correct the handling of the .hash setion entries
in ELF files.  The current code assumeed different types Elf32_Symndx
and Elf64_Symndx.  This is not correct (ccording to the ELF specs) and
most 64 bit platforms also are not using it this way.  The only
exception is Linux/Alpha.

Therefore I've changed Jakub's patch slightly.  The types
Elf{32,64}_Symndx are gone.  I don't think anybody used them.  Instead
in link.h there is a definition of Elf_Symndx.  There is none in
elf.h.  But this is ok IMO since it's always a 32 bit type with the
one exception one has to know about.

If you think this change is a problem speak up now.

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