> The ABI states linkers cannot make -4 themselves, they have to > read it from a file? Heck, let's break it!
Come on, be serious, the ABI gives the reloc's formula, which de facto prescribes assembler's and linker's behaviour. > I gave the current definition in my previous emails (the only > valid one is based on how microprocessors work) and yet ld fails > to link as stated above. [hint: microprocessors don't know what > we are saying or what ABI says; ld has no need whatsoever to get > -4 from input files; ld writers should know that.] There is no "valid one". The ABI is a convention, agreed upon by OS and compiler vendors. You don't like it, fine, but it's here to stay. > ABI again? Are you saying ABI doesn't know how to do rel > relocs? Again, the location must contain the offset to the > symbol from the current contents of the CPU eip register. Are > you saying ABI contradicts that? Yes, it's not the formula of R_386_PC32. Read the docs on the Sun site. -- Eric Botcazou _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
