How ld decides offset for relocation type MIPS GPREL16?

[Qinglai Xiao]

Hi,

I'm writing a runtime linker for MIPS32 arch, and have problems with
GPREL16 relocation type.
For instance, the GNU compiler/assembler outputs a relocatable object with
an instruction as below :

    ff838018        sd      v1,-32744(gp)

The symbol involved here belongs to .sbss section, and is set to
runtime address 0x12b119e8.

After relocated by ld,
_gp = .0x12b12220
.sdata = 0x12b0a228
.sbss =  0x12b11868
Size of .sdata is 0x7640 and size of .sbss is 0x770.
( The values are read from target ELF object.)

And the instruction becomes:

    ff83f7c8        sd      v1,-2104(gp)

My question is: How ld calculates the offset 0xf7c8?
My guess is that 0xf7c8 is calculated by _gp, .sbss/.sdata addresses and
original offset 0x8018.
And I believe the related code is in routine
_bfd_mips_elf_gprel16_reloc of binutils/src/bfd/elf32-mips.c.

But I'm not able to figure out how this is calculated.
Could someone give a hand?

thanks &
regards,
-Qinglai