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Re: How to add 'relaxing' to loader for m68k

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Peter dot Barada at Motorola dot com
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:43:49 -0700
Subject: Re: How to add 'relaxing' to loader for m68k
References: <200204081631.g38GV2Z17166@hyper.wm.sps.mot.com> <20020408233931.GG1042@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <200204090024.g390OGa05982@hyper.wm.sps.mot.com> <20020409022526.GJ1042@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:55:26AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Don't be tempted to scan .text to look for places to relax.  There's
> too much chance of confusion with tables etc. looking like instructions.

Also note that .eh_frame info (and some dwarf2 info) _cannot_ be
relaxed without rewriting it completely.  There are .text displacements
that are encoded as uleb128 quantities.

r~

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