This is the mail archive of the binutils@sourceware.org mailing list for the binutils project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Reuse of reloc_howto_type depending on section


Martin Walter wrote:

> I am currently porting the Binutils to a new architecture and ask for
> your help in the following issue: The target architecture requires all
> addresses to the instruction memory (in control transfer instructions)
> to be multiples of 2 (since all instructions are 16 bits wide and
> properly aligned), whereas the data memory can be accessed on a per
> byte basis. Now, the assembler allows for functions lo(), hi(), 3rd(),
> 4th() within load instructions to extract portions of a symbol, and
> these are used to access both the instruction memory and the data
> memory.
> 
> What I would like to do is to let relocations be right shifted by an
> additional 1 if the symbol within lo(), hi(), etc. refers to the .text
> section. Currently, all symbols are right shifted by this amount in
> the relocation process (but this is a failure for symbols referring to
> the data memory).

> /* A second byte absolute relocation of 32-bit address. */
> HOWTO (R_SPEAR32_HI,       /* type */
>        9,                                    /* rightshift */


  Would it be simplest to define two different relocations, R_SPEAR32_HI and
R_SPEAR32_HI_TEXT for example, that use different rightshift values, and take
care to emit the correct one according to the symbol section in the assembler
when parsing the lo()/hi()/etc. ?

    cheers,
      DaveK


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]