Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Alexander Voropay wrote: > > > 3) AFAIK (correct me), there is no MIPS-specific RELOC type for > > the "branch" instruction format in the BFD, so "bal" to the *external* > > symbols is impossible. > > There is a reloc called BFD_RELOC_16_PCREL_S2 which is used for branches > by BFD internally, but unfortunately the original SysV ELF supplement for > MIPS failed to define an appropriate relocation for this purpose (there is > useless R_MIPS_PC16, though), so there is nothing to map this internal > relocation to. There were discussions as to whether reuse R_MIPS_PC16 for > branches or not. Unfortunately I don't remember the conclusion -- you'd > have to find it out yourself. It is ok to reuse it, but nobody has done the work yet. Thiemo
