[PATCH] D15965: Add support for dumping relocations in non-relocatable files

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits]

On 24 March 2016 at 15:35, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:
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> http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.reloc.html
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>   r_offset
>   This member gives the location at which to apply the relocation action. For a relocatable file, the value is the byte offset from the beginning of the section to the storage unit affected by the relocation. For an executable file or a shared object, the value is the virtual address of the storage unit affected by the relocation.
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> This shows that the assertion is incorrect, as the ELF ABI suggests reading relocation records is valid in Executables as well.
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> While relocation offset is not looked up for shared libraries from .rela.dyn and .rela.plt sections, there is a usecase where relocation sections are generated with the linker switch **--emit-relocs**

And those records have addresses, not offsets. Therefore the assertion
is correct and you may *NOT* remove it.

CHeers,
Rafael