modutil relocations on IA64

Hi,

Looking through obj_ia64.c in the modutils, I see that there are functions to insert imm14 and imm22 values into instructions during module loading. Does this mean that those instructions do not have the immediate values set until load time? If so, what is the reasoning behind this?

Sorry if this is a naive question. The local bookstore was all out of IA64 Relocations for Dummys. ;-)

Mike Madore
Software Engineer
TurboLinux, Inc.