On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 12:01 +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > > No, if you don't have a reloc that can represent this, then the proper > > fix is to use the existing relocs to load the original symbol address > > into a register, then *generate* the appropriate 64-bit addition on top > > of it. > > I already have a gcc fix to do exactly that. My "proper fix" comment > was more to do with the general case. For example, when linking a > huge object that overflows _HA relocs right now we silently generate > bad code.
Ah that is nice indeed :-) In that case I assume we can't have the offset itself be part of the TOC :-) Chicken or egg ? Not sure what's the right fix here is, we don't want to always reserve enough instructions "space" to do a full 64-bit offset load... Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
