[PATCH] D21482: Support/ELF: Add R_AMDGPU_GOTPCREL relocation

[Tom Stellard via llvm-commits]

tstellarAMD added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D21482#461432, @rafael wrote:

> git-clang-format the patch.
>
> Out of curiosity, why do you need a got? Are GPU fancy enough to have
>  shared libraries and symbol preemption these days?


We only support generating shared libraries of GPU code.  The shared libraries are loaded into memory, and then the CPU host code is essentially calling functions in the GPU libraries (not directly calling them directly, but using a GPU runtime library, like OpenCL, for example, to invoke the functions).

We don't support preemption, but we need to use a got for referencing external variables.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D21482