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Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Treat PC32 relocation with branch as PLT32

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 15:57:58 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Treat PC32 relocation with branch as PLT32
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On 02/08/2018 04:56 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:

Since there is no need to prepare for PLT branch on x86-64, generate
R_X86_64_PLT32, instead of R_X86_64_PC32, if possible, which can be
used as a marker for 32-bit PC-relative branches.

To compiler Linux, this patch:

From: "H.J. Lu"<hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32

On i386, there are 2 types of PLTs, PIC and non-PIC.  PIE and shared


The commit message text seems garbled.

Thanks,
Florian

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