[LLVMdev] [ARM] Mixing rel/rela relocations

[Shankar Easwaran]

Thanks a lot for the answers.

Mixing rela/rel will make it hard for the linker to handle(especially 
the lot of configurations in which the linker works - shared 
libraries/partial linking/dynamic linking etc ).

Thanks

Shankar Easwaran

On 11/4/2013 1:20 PM, Tim Northover wrote:
> Hi Shankar,
>
>> Does LLVM emit rel/rela relocations with ARM ?
> I believe we emit .rel for (32-bit) ARM. Hard-coded in ARMELFObjectWriter.cpp (“HasRelocationAddend”). It seems to be what most toolchains have settled on. AArch64 is .rela always in LLVM, in case it matters.
>
>> Any tests ?
> Well there are tests of what we do, but obviously not of the full scope of functionality permitted by the ABI.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tim.


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