[llvm-dev] Fwd: X86 assembler cannot jump NEAR?

[Craig Topper via llvm-dev]

The change is done during relaxation. I think you can search for
fixupNeedsRelaxation if I remember right. I don't have the source code
available on this computer.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Jun Koi via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

>
> On Feb 28, 2016 12:08 AM, "Stephen Checkoway" <s at pahtak.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Feb 27, 2016, at 4:36 AM, Jun Koi via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > > The problem is that llvm-mc always compiles "jmp" this as short jump,
> no matter where the target is. Hence my question. I dont know if there is
> any way to change this behavior. Looks like a bug to me so far.
> >
> > It isn't. It's just created some assembly which, when assembled, may end
> up as a near jump or a short jump.
> >
> > > Craig said there is a trick with object file, but I dont know how to
> do that. Also, why compiling to object file changes the result?
> >
> > Here's an object file (although I don't know why it's producing ELF
> rather than Mach-o):
>
> Oh this is cool! Which code in MC is responsible for replacing EB with E9
> when dumping to object file like this???
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > $ echo "jmp _label"|llvm-mc-mp-3.7 -assemble -triple=i386  -filetype=obj
> > a.o
> > $ x86_64-pc-elf-objdump -d a.o
> >
> > a.o:     file format elf32-i386
> >
> >
> > Disassembly of section .text:
> >
> > 00000000 <.text>:
> >   0:    e9 fc ff ff ff          jmp    0x1
> >
> > And here's assembly which is then run through the compiler.
> >
> > $ echo "jmp _label"|llvm-mc-mp-3.7 -assemble -triple=i386
> -show-encoding |tee b.s
> >         .text
> >         jmp     _label                  # encoding: [0xeb,A]
> >                                        #   fixup A - offset: 1, value:
> _label-1, kind: FK_PCRel_1
> > $ clang -c b.s
> > $ otool -tvj b.o
> > b.o:
> > (__TEXT,__text) section
> > 0000000000000000        e900000000              jmp     0x5
> >
> > As you can see, both produced near jumps. (I assume the difference
> between the offsets has to do with a difference in relocations between ELF
> and Mach-o.)
> >
> > --
> > Stephen Checkoway
> >
> >
> >
>
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