Michael Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since almost all function relocations of this type are inside vtables, > I implemented a new way of relocating vtables. This is a new > '.suse.vtrelocs' section.
It's an interesting idea. Some comments: * Use GNU instead of SUSE, as this is for the GNU tools. * Don't check for explicit section names. Instead, give the section a magic type. * It seems that this is not backward compatible--an executable built in this way will not work if the dynamic linker does not know about it. The section should have the SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING bit set. * Aren't you going to get a lot of duplicate vtreloc entries? Shouldn't they be grouped with the vtables themselves? * The idea is useless without support in the dynamic linker, so you need to get signoff there first. Ian
