mn10300: relaxing vs section merging

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 27, 2004, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:

> The problem I've run into is that we want to fixup relocations that
> happen in SEC_CODE segments, regardless of where they point

?!?

I don't think so.  Unless I failed to describe the PIC jump table
problem properly, or I misremember where such jump tables are located
(I think it's in the text segment), this won't do you much good.

> but NOT fixups that happen in non-code segments.  Unfortunately,
> fixP's don't have a reference to where they're coming from, just
> where they're going to.

Yeah, I vaguely remember this dilemma myself.  More than once I
considered adding a new variant of tc_fix_adjustable that took an
additional argument, but never got around to implementing it.

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