Re: More EH fixes for the PA

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:31:59AM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
> relocs in readonly sections are OK, dynamic relocs in such sections are
> strictly verboten.

Trust me, you are not unique in this.  This is the norm,
not the exception.

> Thus the EH tables, which reference stuff from libstdc++.sl can't reside in
> the readonly data section.

Thus the DW_EH_PE_indirect encoding, which allows us to put 
that dynamic relocation in the data section and reference it
in some indirect read-only fashion from the EH tables.

Please see config/alpha/elf.h.


r~