[PATCH] Re-enable a hook in MCELFObjectTargetWriter to allow target-specific relocationtable sorting and use this hook for Mips.

[Simon Atanasyan]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Rafael Espíndola
<rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And it is not possible for a file to mix relocations from these sets? I.E, no file will ever have a R_MIPS16_LO16 and a R_MIPS_HI16? If that is not the case I think there is a bug in gold :-)
>>
>> Well, you can have this in a .S file:
>>
>> lui  $2,%hi(sym1)
>> .set mips16
>> li   $2,%lo(sym1)
>>
>> Then relocations would be:
>> 00000000  00000605 R_MIPS_HI16       00000000   sym1
>> 00000004  00000669 R_MIPS16_LO16     00000000   sym1
>>
>> so the first relocation wouldn't match the second.
>
> Simon,
>
> It looks like gold would match these. Is that a bug in gold?

Hmm, looks like a bug in gold. It's better to check this code using
gnu bfd linker. I am far from a computer right now and will be able to
do the checking in a few hours.

-- 
Simon Atanasyan