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Re: What is R_X86_64_GOTPLT64 used for?
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "x86-64-abi at googlegroups dot com" <x86-64-abi at googlegroups dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:12:29 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: What is R_X86_64_GOTPLT64 used for?
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Hi,
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, H.J. Lu wrote:
> It has nothing to do with large model.
Yes, I didn't say so. I've used it only to force GCC to emit @GOT relocs
(otherwise it would have used @GOTPCREL) to disprove your claim.
> The same thing happens to small model. We may be to able optimize it,
> independent of GOTPLT.
Yes, if we were to optimize this, the difference between GOT and GOTPLT
would be very minor.
> In any case, -mcmodel=large shouldn't change program behavior.
No, it shouldn't of course.
Ciao,
Michael.