Avoiding unnecessary jump relocations in gas?

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> On 07.05.15 at 08:02, <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> AFAICT gas will produce relocations for jumps to global labels in the
>> same file.  This doesn't seem directly harmful to me, except that, on
>> x86, it forces five-byte jumps instead of two-byte jumps.
>>
>> This seems especially unfortunate, since even hidden and protected
>> symbols have this problem.
>>
>> Given that many users don't want interposition support (especially the
>> kernel and anyone using .hidden or .protected), it would be nice to
>> have a command-line option to turn this off and probably also to turn
>> it off by default for hidden and protected symbols.  Can gas do this?
>
> I've been running with the below changes (taken off of a bigger set
> of changes, so the line numbers may look a little odd) for the last
> couple of years. I never tried to submit this change because so far
> I couldn't find the time to check whether this would have any
> unwanted side effects on cases I don't normally use.
>

This is the patch I checked in.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.
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Branches to global non-weak symbols defined in the same segment with
non-default visibility can be optimized the same way as branches to
local symbols.

gas/

* config/tc-i386.c (elf_symbol_resolved_in_segment_p): New.
(md_estimate_size_before_relax): Use it.

gas/testsuite/

* gas/i386/i386.exp: Run relax-3 and x86-64-relax-2.
* gas/i386/relax-3.d: New file.
* gas/i386/relax-3.s: Likewise.
* gas/i386/x86-64-relax-2.d: Likewise.
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