Relaxation and .debug_loc section

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Sat Jul 14 16:57:00 GMT 2007


Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> writes:
>>
>>> When the relaxation pass shrinks the code, these offsets
>>> point to the wrong locations.  I've looked through other
>>> targets to see if there is anything which looks like it
>>> fixes up the .debug_loc section after relaxation, but
>>> I haven't found anything.
>>
>> I think if you want to do linker relaxing you have to tell the assembler
>> not to resolve such relocations.
>
> There's no way to do that.

Of course there is.  There are already several targets doing this.

Andreas.

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