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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [committed, PATCH] Remove Disp16|Disp32 from 64-bit direct branches
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOqg_H9YXHdoWv-k4zoQm77OoQ19j3djHZ74pgUORiDECw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1505121548100.4883@wotan.suse.de>

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 May 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> This is what I got now:
>>
>> [hjl@gnu-6 tmp]$  cat x.s
>> .text
>> data16 jmp foo
>> bar:
>> mov %eax,%edx
>> [hjl@gnu-6 tmp]$ gcc -c x.s
>> [hjl@gnu-6 tmp]$ objdump -dwr x.o
>>
>> x.o:     file format elf64-x86-64
>>
>>
>> Disassembly of section .text:
>>
>> 0000000000000000 <bar-0x4>:
>>    0: 66 e9 00 00 89 c2     data16 jmpq ffffffffc2890006
>> <bar+0xffffffffc2890002> 2: R_X86_64_PC16 foo-0x2
>>
>> 0000000000000004 <bar>:
>>    4: 89 c2                 mov    %eax,%edx
>> [hjl@gnu-6 tmp]$
>>
>> Is that the same as what you got with binutils 2.25?
>
> This is with 2.23, so your patch would cause a regression:

1. This happened before 20140923.
2. Can you speculate what

" jmpw   4"

does?


> x.o:     file format elf64-x86-64
>
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 0000000000000000 <bar-0x4>:
>    0:   66 e9 00 00             jmpw   4 <bar>
>                         2: R_X86_64_PC16        foo-0x2
>
> 0000000000000004 <bar>:
>    4:   89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx
>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.



-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-12 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-11 21:23 H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 10:41 ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-12 11:54   ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 12:20     ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-12 12:37       ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 13:03         ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-12 13:37           ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 13:49             ` Michael Matz
2015-05-12 13:57               ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2015-05-12 14:31                 ` Michael Matz
2015-05-12 14:49                   ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 15:14                     ` Michael Matz
2015-05-12 15:21                       ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 15:32                         ` Michael Matz
2015-05-12 14:59             ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-12 15:03               ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 15:09                 ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-12 15:11                   ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 15:17                     ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-12 15:37                       ` Michael Matz
2015-05-12 15:43                         ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 15:47                           ` Michael Matz
2015-05-12 16:00                             ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-12 16:03                               ` Michael Matz
2015-05-12 16:08                                 ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-13  6:18                                   ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-13 11:35                                     ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-13 12:27                                       ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-13 13:15                                         ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-13 12:34                                   ` Michael Matz
2015-05-13 13:32                                     ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-13 16:50                                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-05-13 16:53                                         ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-15  6:39                                           ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-15 16:52                                             ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-18  7:05                                               ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-18 11:22                                                 ` H.J. Lu
2015-05-18 11:48                                                   ` Jan Beulich
2015-05-18 12:18                                                     ` H.J. Lu

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