On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM, John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > As far as I can tell, most targets don't sort dynamic relocations. The > exceptions that I see are mips and score. Doing this will increase link time, so I > tend to think it should be avoided if possible. Isn't the dynamic loader a special case? Ulrich Drepper says that relative relocations must *always* be first, it doesn't require a complete sort. The dynamic loader is a special case, but there are some requirements. > Have you tried the ld "-z combreloc" option to see if that works? It > combines reloc sections and sorts them. I haven't tried that yet, are you saying we should change binutils to *default* to "-z combreloc?" > If "-z combreloc" doesn't produce the right order, then we will need > something similar to elf_hppa_sort_unwind(). elfxx-mips.c has a compare function > sort_dynamic_relocs. That sounds like a good place to start if the latter fails. Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
