Marek Michalkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:29:01PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > > > The easiest way is to do this in the linker instead of the compiler. > > See the xstormy16 port and how it handles R_XSTORMY16_FPTR16. This > > has the distinct advantage that you do not commit to the creation of > > an indirect jump until you discover that the target label is outside > > the low 64k. > > Looks perfect to me. So we are not the first architecture needing > such tricks... AVR would need 3 new relocs, used like this: > > .word pm16(label) > > ldi r30,pm16_lo8(label) > ldi r31,pm16_hi8(label) > > and the linker can do the rest of the magic (add jumps in a section > below 64K words if the label is above). > > Cc: to Denis, as I may need help actually implementing these changes > (you know binutils internals much better than I do).
Richard right. Better to support this in binutils. Right now I'm busy with CC0 to CCmode conversion. (you must learn binutils ;) Denis.
