[patch] Arm local fuction symbols

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Thu May 11 17:11:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 17:09, Paul Brook wrote:
> [I originally sent this patch a while ago, but messed up the To: address, so 
> it may have been missed]
> 
> The Arm EABI says that relocations against local symbols may only be 
> substituted for a different symbol if neither of the symbols has type 
> STT_FUNC, both are Arm functions or both are Thumb functions.
> 
> This means relocations against function symbols must not be converted into 
> relocations against section symbols.
> 
> The patch below tweaks arm_fix_adjustable to achieve this.
> 
> Tested with cross to arm-none-eabi.
> Ok?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 2005-04-01  Paul Brook  <paul@codesourcery.com>
> 
> 	* config/tc-arm.c (arm_fix_adjustable): Return 0 for function symbols.

OK.

R.



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