[PATCH] D34245: [PowerPC] Refine the checking for emiting TOC restore nops and Tail-Call eligibility.

[Sean Fertile via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

sfertile marked 2 inline comments as done.
sfertile added inline comments.


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Comment at: lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCISelLowering.cpp:4273
+  // large TOC to provide all data addressing needs of a module with a
+  // single TOC. Both gold and ld.bfd (since binutils-2.24) will issue a
+  // relocation overflow error when trying to reach more than 2G from the
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sfertile wrote:
> hfinkel wrote:
> > What happened before binutils 2.24? 2.24 is only about 3.5 years old.
> I don't know. I asked what the behavior of the 2 linkers was if the TOC grows larger then the 32 bit offset, as well as checking that 'module' in the abi text meant entire exe and entire shared-object (rather then just a single object file). I assumed that the behavior change in 2.24 was from generic linker error to specific diagnostic rather then add new toc base --> error. I can follow up though to ensure this is the case.
Before the change in 2.24 if the offset for  *_HI and *_HA relocs didn't fit in 32 bits a 4 instruction sequence would be used to build a 64 bit constant. The change added the 32 bit limit and overflow checking to the *_HI and *_HA relocs and added  *_HIGH and *_HIGHA relocs to be used if  a 64 bit offset may be needed. So even with the old behavior, its still a single TOC base.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D34245