relax jalr $t9 [R_MIPS_JALR symbol] to bal symbol

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 25, 2003, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:

> Is there something in the dynamic loader that makes sure that the
> "index in segment" aspect of mips jumps will be handled sanely?

Nope.  We'd get this effect if program headers specified
256MB-alignment for pages, but this would mean we couldn't load very
many shared libraries...  This is one of the reasons why the use of j
is pretty much forbidden by ABIs that support PIC and dynamic
loading.

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