Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:19:00 +0100, Thiemo Seufer <ths@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > +#define ELF64_MIPS_R_TYPE(i) \ > > > + (((_Elf64_Mips_R_Info_union)(i)).r_info_fields.r_type1 \ > > > + | ((Elf32_Word)(__extension__ (_Elf64_Mips_R_Info_union)(i) \ > > > + ).r_info_fields.r_type2 << 8) \ > > > + | ((Elf32_Word)(__extension__ (_Elf64_Mips_R_Info_union)(i) \ > > > + ).r_info_fields.r_type3 << 16) \ > > > + | ((Elf32_Word)(__extension__ (_Elf64_Mips_R_Info_union)(i) \ > > > + ).r_info_fields.r_ssym << 24)) > > > > Why is it the right thing to combine the type info into a 32bit word? > > Well, I just take ELF64_MIPS_R_TYPE() from glibc source. It is not more useful in glibc. :-) Any use of the TYPE data will have to take the MIPS64 specifics in account, and thus split it up again into single characters. > > It will never get used as such for MIPS ELF64. I would have expected > > something like: > > > > #define ELF64_MIPS_R_INFO(sym,ssym,t3,t2,t1) \ > > {( \ > > _Elf64_Mips_R_Info info = { \ > > .r_sym = sym, \ > > .r_ssym = ssym, \ > > .r_type3 = t3, \ > > .r_type2 = t2, \ > > .r_type1 = t1, \ > > } \ > > (Elf64_Xword)info; \ > > )} > > > > without a corresponding ELF64_MIPS_R_TYPE, and then: > > > > if (hdr->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64 > > && hdr->e_machine == EM_MIPS) { > > _Elf64_Mips_R_Info info = (_Elf64_Mips_R_Info)r.r_info; > > r.r_info = ELF64_MIPS_R_INFO(TO_NATIVE(info.r_sym), > > info.r_ssym, info.r_type3, > > info.r_type2, info.r_type1); > > } > > Sorry, I can not see what you mean ... it just does byte-swap only > r_sym part, doesn't it? It is not enough because a position of r_sym > in MIPS ELF64 r_info is different from standard ELF64 r_info. But it does so for a _Elf64_Mips_R_Info struct, which already keeps the position of its r_sym field endianness independent. Thiemo