> > How is the idea of adopting it as the standard format of GNU Hurd?
>
> I have no opinion on this. Note though that these complex relocations
> are encoded within a standard ELF file (merely using separate
> relocation-type and symbol-type codes). There is no need for an
> OS/kernel to suppor
Fumiaki Isoya writes:
>> It may interest you to know that, for an older Cygnus project (mep),
>> we implemented a facility called computed/complex relocations, as an
>> ELF extension. This is a way of encoding general symbol/arithmetic
>> expressions to be evaluated at link time and substituted
> It may interest you to know that, for an older Cygnus project (mep),
> we implemented a facility called computed/complex relocations, as an
> ELF extension. This is a way of encoding general symbol/arithmetic
> expressions to be evaluated at link time and substituted into the
> binary output.
Hi -
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 06:23:52AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> [...]
> > This has been merged into gnu binutils some time ago, though is not
> > widely known, and only used by a single cgen-based gas port. See the
> > OBJ_COMPLEX_RELC conditionals in gas/*, the BSF_*RELC/STT_RELC logic
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor writes:
>
>> [...]
>> ELF is designed to permit fast program loading at runtime, and to
>> permit fast linking. Changing symbol and relocation values to take
>> general expressions works against that goal.
>> [...]
>
> It
Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> [...]
> ELF is designed to permit fast program loading at runtime, and to
> permit fast linking. Changing symbol and relocation values to take
> general expressions works against that goal.
> [...]
It may interest you to know that, for an older Cygnus project (mep),
w
> ELF is designed to permit fast program loading at runtime, and to
> permit fast linking. Changing symbol and relocation values to take
> general expressions works against that goal.
> I'm sure it is possible to improve on ELF in various ways. However,
> ELF is pretty good. I very strongly re
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Fumiaki Isoya wrote:
>> I suspect we should make decision of solving all symbols by the
>> calculation. That is, all symbols should be solved by the
>> calculation of the information that stored in Reverse Polish which
>> consists of constants, other symbols, and
I'd just sent mail to r...@gnu.org and he replied.
> I know nothing abnout ELF format, and I have not worked on GCC since
> 1991. Thus, I simply am not in a position to judge the merits of your
> suggestion. How about writing to g...@gnu.org, which is the discussion
> list for GCC?
My original
