[PATCH] D38554: Fixed ppc32 function relocations in non-pic mode

[Joerg Sonnenberger via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

joerg added a comment.

A working linker is certainly expected to use the most efficient binding. The assembler (and by extension the compiler) can't tell. This applies in both directions -- in your example, the linker might need to translate the direct call into a PLT call, depending on the target. It all goes back to "use a working linker". So yes, at this point in time the existance of two different relocations for call instructions can be clearly seen as a historic artifact. This doesn't change anything of what I have been saying since the beginning. The PowerPC ABIs are heavily biases towards position independent code and this is just adding complications for no good reason.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D38554