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Re: [patch][rfc] Complex Relocations gas and bfd
Nick Clifton wrote:
I'm wondering how this could be done. As I understand it, relocations
are applied to fields in insns. How could we construct test cases
which are not specific to a given ISA?
Frank Eigler mentioned one way - extending GAS to allow the generation
of complex expressions in a target neutral way.
OK -- so when someone undertakes to extend gas in such a way, these
kinds of tests will be possible. This is, however not the goal of this
implementation. Are you asking me to undertake this work as condition of
acceptance?
Another way might be to create a new "generic" target which uses the
complex relocations but which does not represent a real architecture.
(This target might also be used as a template for creating new target
ports).
How does this improve upon the existence of a real target (MeP) which
generates these relocs, has a testsuite, and which could also be used as
a template creating new target ports?
Dave