Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 01:00:33 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20070524.010033.55485829.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
To: mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       sam@ravnborg.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, adobriyan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Crash on modpost, addend_386_rel()
From: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
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On Wed, 23 May 2007 18:23:17 +0300, Mika_Penttil? <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> So with mips64 you are lucky because the relocation symbol is .init.text 
> and hence addend matches  (has to match) symbol's offset. I can't find 
> any spec where it is stated that addend == address, maybe it's in mips64 
> abi or something. It is quite normal to have addend of 0.

The RELA part was added for other archs first (actually at that time
it was broken on MIPS64 due to it's unusual layout).  So it would be
irrelevant to MIPS64 ABI.  Unfortunately I do not know details, just
tried to hack mips/mips64 stuff.

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Atsushi Nemoto
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