Ping: PATCH (gas): fix XCOFF RTOC addend

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Mon Nov 5 12:50:00 GMT 2007


Just a ping.

On Oct 22, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the current value of RTOC addend is not correct on ppc xcoff  
> targets: the addend must be relative to the
> beginning of the TOC csect and not the the beginning of the .data  
> section.
> This bug occurs very rarely (never) on GCC produced files as toc is  
> the first csect of the section.
>
> This simple files:
>         .csect .dummy[RW]
>         .long 1
> .toc
>         .globl xx
> .csect .data[RW]
> xx:
>         .long 1
> .toc
> LC..0:
>         .tc xx[TC],xx
> .csect .text[PR]
>         .globl .main
> .main:
>         lwz 0,LC..0(2)
>         blr
>
> generates these outputs with native aix as (nm and objdump -dr):
> 0000000c d .data
> 00000008 d .dummy
> 00000000 T .main
> 00000000 t .text
> 00000010 d TOC
> 00000010 d xx
> 0000000c D xx
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 00000000 <.main>:
>    0:   80 02 00 00     lwz     r0,0(r2)  ##### offset is 0
>                         2: R_TOC        xx+0xfffffff0
>    4:   4e 80 00 20     blr
>
> With the unfixed gas:
> 00000010 d .data
> 00000008 d .dummy
> 00000000 T .main
> 00000000 t .text
> 0000000c d TOC
> 0000000c d xx
> 00000010 D xx
>
> 00000000 <.main>:
>    0:   80 02 00 04     l       r0,4(r2) ##### wrong offset
>                         2: R_TOC        xx+0xfffffff4
>    4:   4e 80 00 20     br
>
> With the patch:
>
> 00000000 <.main>:
>    0:   80 02 00 00     l       r0,0(r2) ##### Correct offset
>                         2: R_TOC        xx+0xfffffff4
>    4:   4e 80 00 20     br
>
> Tristan.
>
> gas:
> 2007-10-22  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
>
>         * config/tc-ppc.c (md_apply_fix): For PPC_TOC16 on XCOFF,  
> uses offset
>         within the TOC instead of the VMA.
>
>
> gas/testsuite:
> 2007-10-22  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
>
>         * gas/ppc/test1xcoff32.d: Updated to match RTOC bug fix.
>
>
> *** gas/config/tc-ppc.c 19 Oct 2007 10:48:17 -0000      1.129
> --- gas/config/tc-ppc.c 22 Oct 2007 13:20:45 -0000
> ***************
> *** 6059,6068 ****
>   #ifdef TE_PE
>         fixP->fx_addnumber = 0;
>   #else
> !       /* We want to use the offset within the data segment of the
> !        symbol, not the actual VMA of the symbol.  */
>         fixP->fx_addnumber =
> !       - bfd_get_section_vma (stdoutput, S_GET_SEGMENT (fixP- 
> >fx_addsy));
>   #endif
>       }
>   #endif
> --- 6059,6069 ----
>   #ifdef TE_PE
>         fixP->fx_addnumber = 0;
>   #else
> !       /* We want to use the offset within the toc, not the actual  
> VMA
> !        of the symbol.  */
>         fixP->fx_addnumber =
> !       - bfd_get_section_vma (stdoutput, S_GET_SEGMENT (fixP- 
> >fx_addsy))
> !       - S_GET_VALUE (ppc_toc_csect);
>   #endif
>       }
>   #endif
>
>



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