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Re: More EH fixes for the PA


  In message <20010518140709.A27758@redhat.com>you write:
  > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:07:10AM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > > The SOM linker will blow chunks if you have any dynamic relocations
  > > in a readonly section.
  > 
  > Note that we have a new macro, ASM_PREFERRED_EH_DATA_FORMAT,
  > which will let you encode pointers in practically arbitrary
  > fashions so that the EH data will be read-only.
  > 
  > I know SOM has a horde of relocations.  Surely some set is
  > appropriate...
relocs in readonly sections are OK, dynamic relocs in such sections are
strictly verboten.

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

jeff


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