On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:28 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Richard Henderson <r...@redhat.com> > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:31:44 -0700 > >> On 03/12/2010 09:33 PM, David Miller wrote: >>> I couldn't figure out immediately how to fix this as the >>> way LTO does spec overriding and such looked non-trivial. >> >> It would not be a bad thing, IMO, if the sparc assembler >> were extended to be able to emit any reloc directly, without >> needing a specific command-line option. Then you'd only >> encounter this problem with legacy assemblers. > > It's not the assemblers fault. > > We're using %hi() and expecting the assembler to emit a > PC relative relcation just because the symbol name happens > to be _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ And it will do this, but only > when -PIC. Changing that is pretty dangerous. > > But even if we got past that, we need to get the assembler options > right in order to enable instruction classes. For example we have to > get -Av9a there when using VIS instructions. > > Other platforms are going to hit things like this too. > > LTO really needs to evaluate the specs correctly. >
Can you store assembler options in some LTO section? -- H.J.
