[PATCH] D13832: [ELF2/AArch64] Comment R_AARCH64_ADD_ABS_LO12_NC relocation

[Davide Italiano via llvm-commits]

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Quick sanity (and english) check.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D13832

Files:
  Target.cpp

Index: Target.cpp
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--- Target.cpp
+++ Target.cpp
@@ -632,6 +632,10 @@
     break;
   case R_AARCH64_ADD_ABS_LO12_NC:
     // No overflow check needed.
+    // This relocation stores 12 bits and there's no instruction
+    // to do it. Instead, we do a 32 bits store of the value
+    // of r_addend bitwise-or'ed L. This assumes that the addend
+    // bits in L are zero.
     or32le(L, (SA & 0xFFF) << 10);
     break;
   case R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_LO21: {


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