arm-elf-gcc shared flat support

[vivek tyagi]

Hi

Thank you for your support,Any suggestions on how can we make all
function calls via GOT rather than "bl".

Vivek Tyagi


On 3/31/07, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > the ELF file generated by the cross compiler tool chain(here
> > arm-elf-gcc).Now the flat files do not have a PLT .They are very
> >
> > simple format with TEXT:GOT:DATA:RELCO sections(in that order).so IMHO  the
> > generic linker modification for PLT sequences cannot be done.
>
> Sure it can. The dynamic loader doesn't need to know or care about the plt.
> It's produced entirely by the static linker.
>
> > now the object files would be linked as
> > arm-elf-gcc exe.o -Wl,-R,shared-lib.o
>
> Relying on ld -R to build sounds like a fairly bad idea.
>
> Also, as you're designing something new, you really should make it EABI based
> (http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html). That describes a model for
> generating ELF images, and using a postlinker to generate target binaries
> (Probably bFLT in this case).
>
> Paul
>