powerpc relocations

[Mark Brinicombe <mark%causality.com@localhost>]

Hi,
  I'm taking a look at the powerpc code in preperation for a port that I
plan on doing and have a few questions. Sorry if these are things that
have come up before and been thrashed to death in earlier discussions.

1. EGCS - Are the known problems with EGCS and powerpc-netbsd configs ? I
noticed that the powerpc port has not yet switched. Is this due to code
problems or more a problem with time for testing and compiler warning
cleanup cycles etc. ?

2. Shared libs - Are there any major obsticles or flaws that are
preventing shared libraries or is it a time / resource problem ?

3. I notice that reloc.h defines a reloc_type enum of 33 fields plus a
RELOC_MAX enum and that this gets stuffed into a 5 bit field in a
structure in aout_machdep.h. This of course gives errors with EGCS (how I
noticed it). What is the relevance of aout_machdep.h since the powerpc
uses elf and always has done as far as I recall.


Cheers,
                                Mark