ia64 ltoff22x/ldxmov relaxation

[H. J. Lu]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:09:56PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> |> Also misses properly choosing a new gp when jump buffers are added.
> |> Technically this is a potential correctness issue.  Failures will
> |> be caught by relocate_section in the form of GPREL22 overflows.
> |> However this should should work well in practice because of the default
> |> 2**61 byte separation of the text and data segments in executables.
> |> In order for this to be fixed, I need a callback from the main ld
> |> relaxation loop at the start of a new round of relaxation.
> 
> Unfortunately, this bites with large shared libraries where this text/data
> separation does not exist.  For example, we get GPREL22 overflows when
> linking libjava from gcc mainline.  I can prepare a test case if you need.
> 

Yes, plase. I am interested in a testcase for that.


H.J.