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ELF st_other

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Wed Jul 12 08:05:00 GMT 2000 
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:53:34PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm about to commit this.  I was poking around here toying with the idea
> of using a bit in st_other during final link to flag local syms that have
> dynamic relocs against them.  The idea is to save a hash lookup on all
> relocs against local syms.  See bfd/elf-hppa.h:elf_hppa_relocate_section. 
> Comments?
> 

Before you do it, please make a formal proprosal and well document it.
Please keep in mind that the ELF ABI may use the remaining bits in
st_other in the future. If you make a convincing argument for your
case now, we may be able to defend it in the future.


H.J.
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