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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/reloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/reloc.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/reloc.c b/bfd/reloc.c index 9b44c72..7111613 100644 --- a/bfd/reloc.c +++ b/bfd/reloc.c @@ -344,19 +344,18 @@ CODE_FRAGMENT . links (e.g. GOT stuff) it doesn't matter what this is set to. *} . bfd_boolean partial_inplace; . -. {* The src_mask selects which parts of the read in data -. are to be used in the relocation sum. E.g., if this was an 8 bit -. byte of data which we read and relocated, this would be -. 0x000000ff. When we have relocs which have an addend, such as -. sun4 extended relocs, the value in the offset part of a -. relocating field is garbage so we never use it. In this case -. the mask would be 0x00000000. *} +. {* src_mask selects the part of the instruction (or data) to be used +. in the relocation sum. If the target relocations don't have an +. addend in the reloc, eg. ELF USE_REL, src_mask will normally equal +. dst_mask to extract the addend from the section contents. If +. relocations do have an addend in the reloc, eg. ELF USE_RELA, this +. field should be zero. Non-zero values for ELF USE_RELA targets are +. bogus as in those cases the value in the dst_mask part of the +. section contents should be treated as garbage. *} . bfd_vma src_mask; . -. {* The dst_mask selects which parts of the instruction are replaced -. into the instruction. In most cases src_mask == dst_mask, -. except in the above special case, where dst_mask would be -. 0x000000ff, and src_mask would be 0x00000000. *} +. {* dst_mask selects which parts of the instruction (or data) are +. replaced with a relocated value. *} . bfd_vma dst_mask; . . {* When some formats create PC relative instructions, they leave |