Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Eric Christopher wrote:
I'd like to retain the ELF MIPS_R_PCREL16, and implement external
branches with it again.
? Why?
I guess this question was about the GNU ECOFF extension reloc, which
I'm not really interested in. :-)
Well, some people find it useful. I wouldn't mind it, either. The i386
ELF even supports 8-bit external branches (yes, +127/-128), so MIPS with
its 18-bit range doesn't even look close to insanity.
Indeed, it can save some insns in hand-coded critical paths, without
the need of lumping all of it in one file. The code has just to reside
in a +-128k range, which should be easy to achieve.