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Re: hppa, global symbols and the BL instruction

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:05:40 +1030
Subject: Re: hppa, global symbols and the BL instruction
References: <200512102030.jBAKUaJd015795@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> <87vexwlyx5.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:18:30AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> It seems that GAS cannot encode the necessary relocation if the symbol
> is more than 64K instructions away from the start of the object file.

It should be able to.  On RELA targets the relocation addend isn't
stored in the text section.  If you have a relocation, the value written
to the field is generally not important (because it will be overwritten
by the linker).

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

References:
- Re: hppa, global symbols and the BL instruction
  - From: John David Anglin
- Re: hppa, global symbols and the BL instruction
  - From: Florian Weimer

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