<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://3013/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Yin,<div><br></div><div>Can you provide some assembly code so we can understand what you are trying to do?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Evan</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Yin Ma <<a href="mailto:yinma@codeaurora.org">yinma@codeaurora.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Currently LLVM ARM backend is still using the x86 way to generate position independent code. The algorithm retrieves the pointer of global offset table at first. However, GCC has been using the label relative offset to computer position independent code. The GCC way results smaller code size in ARM architecture. This patch is to implement GCC way to generate position independent code.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">In the attachment.<br>pic.diff is the code patch<br>the rest of four files are the test validation results before and after code changed<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Please give a review<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Yin<o:p></o:p></div></div><span><report.simple.new.txt></span><span><report.simple.org.txt></span><span><cross.new></span><span><<a href="http://cross.org">cross.org</a>></span><span><pic.diff></span>_______________________________________________<br>llvm-commits mailing list<br><a href="mailto:llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu</a><br><a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>