I think you mean a 'displacement relocation'. A displacement relocation gives the relative distance between the offset the relocation points to and the symbol it references.
You can contrast this against standard relocations which writes the address of the referenced symbol into the address identified by the relocation offset. _Mike_ On 4/26/06, Xiaobin Lu <xiaobinlu02 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Would anyone explain what the displacement relocation of link editor is about? > > When reading the article at > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/6mhm7pl19?a=view, I got lost about > what it is talking about. > > Thanks. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > tools-linking mailing list > tools-linking at opensolaris.org > > -- Michael Walker mwalker at fins.com
