[PATCH] D50097: [PPC64] Position-dependent long-branch thunks.

[Sean Fertile via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

sfertile created this revision.
sfertile added reviewers: syzaara, ruiu, rdhindsa.
Herald added subscribers: kbarton, arichardson, nemanjai, emaste.
Herald added a reviewer: espindola.

This adds a new '.branch_lt' synthetic section, which is used to store the target addresses for the thunks.
The thunk  itself is almost exactly the same as the position-independent long-branch thunks except the target address goes into the new section and no dynamic relocation is needed.


Repository:
  rLLD LLVM Linker

https://reviews.llvm.org/D50097

Files:
  ELF/InputSection.cpp
  ELF/Symbols.cpp
  ELF/Symbols.h
  ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
  ELF/SyntheticSections.h
  ELF/Thunks.cpp
  ELF/Writer.cpp
  test/ELF/basic64be.s
  test/ELF/ppc64-long_branch.s

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