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Re: Link-time relaxing for m68k ELF


On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 12:09:02PM -0500, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Here's what I'm thinking about. Rather than use any special relocs at all,
> what about creating special sections with relaxation control information?

That is best.

I also recommend leaving the existing assembler relaxation in place.
If the assembler knows the displacement between the two locations, it
should go ahead and generate the smallest known sequence.  This so that
gas output for non-relaxing linkers is no worse than it has to be.


r~

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