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<p>Hi, Vit,</p>
<p>I'm not under the impression that ppc support in lld is anywhere
near ready for use. I had it linking hello world on ppc64 some
time ago, and it's not clear that ppc is even that far. I'd not
adjust anything in LLVM based on ppc support in lld right now.</p>
<p> -Hal<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/04/2017 11:03 AM, vit9696 via
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
I am currently facing an issue at linking stage when compiling basic C code for an embedded PPC32 platform and linking with LLD. For external symbol linkage LLVM appears to use PLT which results in generating a R_PPC_PLTREL24 relocation, that is not support by LDD. Therefore even such a basic example cannot be built:
/* s.c */
int f() { return 0; }
/* t.c */
int f();
int _start() { return f(); }
$ clang -c -target ppc32-gnu-linux-eabi t.c -o t.o
$ clang -c -target ppc32-gnu-linux-eabi s.c -o s.o
$ ld.lld t.o s.o -o t
ld.lld: error: t.c:(function _start): unrecognized reloc 18
When I tried ld.bfd the objects linked fine, so I initially thought that it was a lld issue. Yet, after I checked the source code, I started to feel that PLT use on PPC32 is not even desired, and it is likely just an overlooked regression. If you check the original code, PLT was only meant to be used with PIC code: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reviews.llvm.org/rL213427#C65598OL3360">https://reviews.llvm.org/rL213427#C65598OL3360</a>. Note, that there are two places covering the PPCII::MO_PLT_OR_STUB assignment, which are both guarded with getRelocationModel check.
Now let's look at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reviews.llvm.org/rL273499#C65598OL4294">https://reviews.llvm.org/rL273499#C65598OL4294</a> and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reviews.llvm.org/rL273595#C65598OL4316">https://reviews.llvm.org/rL273595#C65598OL4316</a>. For some unknown reason these two commits silently removed -fno-pic handling, and effectively enforced PLT use. As a result they broke the compatibility with linkers not implementing PLT-relative relocations.
While it might be good for LLD to support R_PPC_PLTREL24, in my opinion there still is no reason for LLVM to emit this in non-PIC mode. If my understanding is correct, I can submit a patch that will replace
bool UsePlt = !Local && Subtarget.isTargetELF() && !isPPC64;
with
bool UsePlt = !Local && Subtarget.isTargetELF() && !isPPC64 &&
DAG.getTarget().getRelocationModel() == Reloc::PIC_;
Vit
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Hal Finkel
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Argonne National Laboratory</pre>
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