On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:17:28PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:04:05 +0200, Matthew Miller wrote: > > But, since prelink presents other problems on its own, > > Prelinked system is a good test for tools like GDB, elfutils and others they > can properly handle the displacements of sections/segments. > > This is something that ELF does not forbid so tools no longer compatible with > non-zero file address base may have problems in future if someone wants to use > them that way for example on some embedded system. > > But another opinion can be s/he should fix them her/himself if s/he needs such > a feature. > There were similar arguments about ppc support (testing to reveal endian-related bugs) but that didn't stop us from dropping ppc as a primary architecture. I don't think this is an argument that has much precedent.
-Toshio
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