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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/bfd-in2.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/bfd-in2.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/bfd-in2.h b/bfd/bfd-in2.h index c654d83db0d..60b7b5182be 100644 --- a/bfd/bfd-in2.h +++ b/bfd/bfd-in2.h @@ -1920,19 +1920,18 @@ struct reloc_howto_struct 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 |