> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:35:26AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > >>> On 16.02.11 at 21:04, "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > > > On 02/16/2011 11:22 AM, H.J. Lu wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I updated x32 psABI draft to version 0.2 to change x32 library path > > >> from lib32 to libx32 since lib32 is used for ia32 libraries on Debian, > > >> Ubuntu and other derivative distributions. The new x32 psABI is > > >> available from: > > >> > > >> https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/home > > >> > > > > > > I'm wondering if we should define a section header flag (sh_flags) > > > and/or an ELF header flag (e_flags) for x32 for the people unhappy about > > > keying it to the ELF class... > > > > Thanks for supporting this! > > > > Besides that I also wonder why all the 64-bit relocations get > > marked as LP64-only. It is clear that some of them can be useful > > in ILP32 as well, and there's no reason to preclude future uses > > even if currently no-one can imagine any. > > > > Furthermore, it seems questionable to continue to require rela > > relocations when for all normal ones (leaving aside the 8- and 16- > > bit ones) the addend can fit in the relocated field. > > REL is horrible pain, we shouldn't ever add new REL targets.
According to Mozilla folks however REL+RELA scheme used by EABI leads to significandly smaller libxul.so size According to http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177 the difference is about 4-5MB (out of approximately 20-30MB shared lib) Honza > > Jakub
