[LLVMdev] [MCJIT] Why does it produce non-PIC ELF code?

[Rafael Ávila de Espíndola]

On 07/08/2011 01:25 PM, Yuri wrote:
> ELF that MCJIT writes on x86_64 has relocations in it. Particularly,
> R_X86_64_PC32 relocations are used for the sections .gcc_except_table
> and .eh_frame related to exception processing.
> I am not sure where is general documentation on relocation types,
> including R_X86_64_PC32. Looks like it's nowhere to be found on the web.
> But 32-bit relocation can't be used in 64-bit code since it causes
> overflows in general case. And particularly in case of .gcc_except_table
> and .eh_frame in MCJIT-printed ELF.

My guess is that it is just using the small code model, in which case 
you need to produce 32 bit relocations since that is the size available 
in the instruction (there is no call with a 64 bit immediate for example).

> So it this a bug, or I just miss something?
>
> Another question is: Why PIC code instead isn't written by MCJIT? When I
> look at the code, it looks like the variable IsPCRel is used to
> determine if code is non-PIC, and this variable is calculated by
> isFixupKindPCRel based on some fixup types.
> Is there a way to make all code PIC?
>
> Yuri

Cheers,
Rafael