Ping: [RFC,Patch,AVR]: ad PR13503: Add new relocs to TC_VALIDATE_FIX?

Georg-Johann Lay avr@gjlay.de
Fri Sep 7 20:27:00 GMT 2012


Denis Chertykov schrieb:
> Georg-Johann Lay:
>> Just a ping for
>>
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-08/msg00270.html
>>
>>> Hi, in gas/config/tc-avr.h there is the following comment
>>> to TC_VALIDATE_FIX:
>>>
>>> /* We don't want gas to fixup the following program memory related
>>> relocations.
>>>    We will need them in case that we want to do linker relaxation.
>>>    We could in principle keep these fixups in gas when not relaxing.
>>>    However, there is no serious performance penilty when making the linker
>>>    make the fixup work.  Check also that fx_addsy is not NULL, in order to
>>> make
>>>    sure that the fixup refers to some sort of lable.  */
>>>
>>> PR13503 introduced new relocs that are not mentioned in TC_VALIDATE_FIX.
>>>
>>> The attached patch adds the new BFD_RELOC_AVR_8_LO, BFD_RELOC_AVR_8_HI,
>>> BFD_RELOC_AVR_8_HLO to that exclude list.
>>>
>>> I cannot say if these new relocs need to be handled there, if the must
>>> be handled there or must *not* be handled there.  I just noticed that
>>> the new relocs are missing there, but no clue if that's good or bad or
>>> simply does not matter...
>>>
>>> Thus please review this patch.  And in the case it is actually needed,
>>> please apply it.
>>>
>>>
>>> gas/
>>>     PR 13503
>>>     * config/tc-avr.h (TC_VALIDATE_FIX): Skip: BFD_RELOC_AVR_8_LO,
>>>     BFD_RELOC_AVR_8_HI, BFD_RELOC_AVR_8_HLO.
>>>
> 
> Seems right, but I don't remember some BFD nuances.
> 
> Denis.

If it is in order, please don't forget to install it.

Thanks.




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