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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:19:40 +0200
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>, Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

>>> The relocations are always an issue. If you know about a magic 
>>> compiler option that tells the compiler "scream of you find 
>>> relocations", please tell me.
>>
>> You can do a normal ELF link and use readelf on the output.
> 
> Hm I just tried to put in an external relocation (mov %eax, FOO) and ld 
> already complained about it.
> What issue exactly were you talking about Paul?

Just in case you were confusing Paolo B. (me) with Paul B., my 
suggestion was just a way to find relocations assuming ld would not 
complain.  Possibly Paul's (his) observation does not apply to binary 
output.

Paolo