On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:44:54AM -0700, David Daney wrote: >>> R_MIPS_HI16 relocations to be followed by a R_MIPS_LO16 symbol. All >>> relocations of this sequence must use the same symbol, of course. This is >>> a very old extension; I think it predates the Linux/MIPS port. >> >> Perhaps a foolish question, but is this documented anywhere? > > What more documentation do you need? It's obvious if you read > bfd/elf{32,64,xx}-mips.c :-). David ist (unforutunately ...) right. I don't think this is documented anywhere. I also only learned it from reading the binutils sources. Ralf