<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Davide Italiano via Phabricator <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reviews@reviews.llvm.org" target="_blank">reviews@reviews.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">davide added a comment.<br>
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In <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D28552#643063" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.org/<wbr>D28552#643063</a>, @ruiu wrote:<br>
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> How does dtrace use that? I was thinking that the semantics of the relocation is pretty clear -- that is a relocation which doesn't change the target values.<br>
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</span>Then why you need to emit a reloc in the first place (if that reloc is de facto a nop)?<br>
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See <a href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=288485&view=rev" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-<wbr>project?rev=288485&view=rev</a> for the dtrace use.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that's because of a similar reason why nop is useful in machine instruction set.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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