[PATCH/RFA] sh-elf: Unnecessary relocations
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Thu Sep 26 16:04:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:26:52AM +0900, kaz Kojima wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Current gas for sh-elf generates some unnecessary PC relative
> relocations when the symbol is global. For example, I've got
> two relocations:
>
> RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.text]:
> OFFSET TYPE VALUE
> 00000000 R_SH_DIR8WPL foo
> 00000006 R_SH_IND12W foo
>
> for the following small source
>
> .text
> mova foo,r0
> rts
> nop
> .global foo
> foo:
> bra foo
> nop
>
> and slightly old gas doesn't make such relocations for the same
> source. With the following patch, gas shows the same behavior
> as the old one. Regression tested on sh-unknown-linux-gnu.
Isn't that incorrect ELF, though? Can't the definition of foo end up
coming from another shared object?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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