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Re: [patch][rfc] Complex Relocations gas and bfd
Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com> writes:
> [...]
> > Another way might be to create a new "generic" target which uses
> > the complex relocations but which does not represent a real
> > architecture. (This target might also be used as a template for
> > creating new target ports).
>
> How does this improve upon the existence of a real target (MeP) [...]
It may make sense for a future real port to use the complex relocation
mechanism for *all* of its operands/relocations, eliminating much more
of the related hand-written stuff in gas/bfd/ld. At the cost of
slower (but improveable) assembler/linker performance, it could reduce
binutils porting difficulty.
- FChE