* HI16 / LO16 relocations.
@ 1999-08-03 15:10 Ralf Baechle
1999-08-03 15:40 ` Mark Mitchell
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From: Ralf Baechle @ 1999-08-03 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark Mitchell, binutils, linux, linux-mips, linux-mips
Mark, for now I'm just posting this in the hope it may ring a bell.
It seems like HI16 / LO16 relocation pairs are not handled correctly
This may result in ``la $reg, symbol'' ending up after the final link
as ``la $reg, symbol + 0x10000''.
I'll try to come up with a resonably small example tomorrow; right now
I've just discovered this problem and can only show the problem in
the diffs of disassembler listings between the two builds of a Linux
kernel with binutils 2.8.1 and cvs-binutils.
Ralf
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* Re: HI16 / LO16 relocations.
1999-08-03 15:10 HI16 / LO16 relocations Ralf Baechle
@ 1999-08-03 15:40 ` Mark Mitchell
1999-08-03 16:01 ` Ralf Baechle
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mark Mitchell @ 1999-08-03 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ralf; +Cc: binutils, linux, linux-mips, linux-mips
>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
Ralf> Mark, for now I'm just posting this in the hope it may ring
Ralf> a bell. It seems like HI16 / LO16 relocation pairs are not
Ralf> handled correctly This may result in ``la $reg, symbol''
Ralf> ending up after the final link as ``la $reg, symbol +
Ralf> 0x10000''.
We're running into a lot more problems than I'd hoped for. I'm
becoming embarassed. The best redeeming action is fix the problems
with all possible alacrity; I'll try my best. I do really think we're
getting close. I appreciate your testing.
As soon as you get a test-case, I'll take a look at this. It's fine
even it's big, as long as you can point at the exact place that goes
wrong; I'd really like to get this work behind me, and get everything
back to a more stable state. 've compiled *millions* of lines of code
on IRIX6 with the new linker without a problem; obviously the
relocation patterns are very different from the N32/N64 ABI to the
older ABIs.
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com
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* Re: HI16 / LO16 relocations.
1999-08-03 15:40 ` Mark Mitchell
@ 1999-08-03 16:01 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Ralf Baechle @ 1999-08-03 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark Mitchell; +Cc: binutils, linux, linux-mips, linux-mips
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:42:36PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> As soon as you get a test-case, I'll take a look at this. It's fine
> even it's big, as long as you can point at the exact place that goes
> wrong; I'd really like to get this work behind me, and get everything
> back to a more stable state. 've compiled *millions* of lines of code
> on IRIX6 with the new linker without a problem; obviously the
> relocation patterns are very different from the N32/N64 ABI to the
> older ABIs.
I think the core differences are probably that I tried to compile non-pic
code and code which tries to use GNU extensions. I intend to recompile
the entire Linux distribution with this new linker which probably will
trigger a few more bugs according to my past experience. Finally the
Linux/MIPS64 kernel will exercise non-PIC 64-bit code - hopefully
without triggering any new bugs ...
Ralf
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