[Patch][Gold] BE8 for ARM

[Umesh Kalappa]

Hi Doug /Sriram.

Any inputs/suggestions  here ,will be appreciated .

Thank you
~Umesh

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:55 AM, Bharathi Seshadri (bseshadr)
<bseshadr@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch implements the BE8 support for ARM in the gold linker. It has been tested on a non-trivial large program (size ~120MB).
> Thanks to Cary Coutant for his initial review.
>
> gold/ChangeLog
> 2016-07-07  Bharathi Seshadri  <bseshadr@cisco.com>
>
>         * options.h (General_options): Add --be8 option.
>         * arm.cc (Arm_relobj::do_relocate_sections): Add code to swap for be8.
>           (Output_data_plt_arm_standard::do_fill_first_plt_entry): Likewise.
>           (Output_data_plt_arm_short::do_fill_plt_entry): Likewise.
>           (Output_data_plt_arm_long::do_fill_plt_entry): Likewise.
>           (Target_arm::do_adjust_elf_header): Do EF_ARM_BE8 adjustment.
>
> Regards,
> Bharathi