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Hi all,</div>
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I have reached the relocation phase of my backend implementation and I'm having some trouble. The LLVM code I'm trying to compile is this:</div>
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<span>%struct.Date = type { i32, i32, i32 }<br>
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<div>@date = global %struct.Date { i32 2012, i32 10, i32 120000 }, align 4<br>
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<div>; Function Attrs: nounwind<br>
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<div>define i32 @foo() #0 {<br>
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%1 = load i32, i32* getelementptr inbounds (%struct.Date, %struct.Date* @date, i32 0, i32 2), align 4<br>
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<span>which yields the following assembly lines<br>
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<span><span>MOVI $r0, date</span></span></div>
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<span><span></span><span></span><span>LD $r4, $r0, 8 // load the content of [$r0 + 8] into return register $r4<br>
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<span></span>When I look at the text section (llvm-objdump -s output), I see this</div>
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0000 00c2</div>
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This is the correct MOVI opcode but the instead of the 0s, I should see the address of 'date'</div>
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The ouput of llvm-objdump -r -t is this:</div>
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<span>RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.rel.text]:<br>
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<div>00000000 R_XXX_MOVI date (Note: correct relocation type)<br>
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<div>RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.rel.eh_frame]:<br>
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<div>0000001c R_XXX_NONE .text<br>
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<div>SYMBOL TABLE:<br>
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<div>00000000 l df *ABS* 00000000 array.ll<br>
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<div>00000000 l d .text 00000000 .text<br>
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<div>00000000 g F .text 0000000e foo<br>
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<div>00000000 g O .data 0000000c date</div>
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<div>Why am I missing? Why didn't fill the instruction with the address of 'date'?</div>
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<div>Thanks.<br>
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