Eliminating R_PPC_REL32 relocations

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:50:24PM -0800, David Dunkle wrote:
> I have found that these relocations are used to implement the jump tables
> associated with switch statements as generated by GCC. The jump tables are
> in data sections in the cases I have examined.

I am surprised that jump tables are resulting in REL32 relocs in a
shared library.  The jump table entries should be relative addresses of
*local* labels, and so need no relocation in the final link output.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre