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Re: Linking very large programs with inadequate branch displacements
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Bill Yoder wrote:
> What we'd like to do is to open up a hole in the bfd output section
> and insert a springboard in it, so that the offending instruction can
> instead branch to that nearby springboard and then use an absolute
> address embedded in the springboard to jump to the far-distant target.
Usually referred to as a "trampoline" or "stub". For yet
another implementation, see bfd/elf64-mmix.c, handling of
R_MMIX_PUSHJ_STUBBABLE. See also gas/config/tc-mmix.c for when
these relocs are generated.
brgds, H-P