Re: About the hppa function ptr fp argument relocation problem

[Torsten Landschoff]

Hi Randolph, 

Thanks for keeping me in the loop...

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:15:32AM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> After tracing through the binutils code a bit I see that gas does parse
> the .CALL info in the input asm and fill in the info into the arg_reloc
> member of call_desc. However, the bfd library does not use
> this info to generate the appropriate argument relocation stubs.

Interesting. 

> Looking into binutils cvs I see that the very original code in cvs
> (bfd/elf32-hppa.c) did have some arg relocation support, but that was 
> subsequently removed (inadvertently?) in the 1.2->1.3 checkin with various 
> cleanups.

I tried to understand what was changed with that checkin, but it is
a huge diff and I don't really have the time to go through it. Guess
we have to wait for the maintainer to work that out :(

cu
        Torsten

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