[llvm-dev] RFC: LLD range extension thunks

[Simon Atanasyan via llvm-dev]

On Jan 19, 2017 2:48 AM, "Ed Maste" <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

On 4 January 2017 at 13:34, Peter Smith via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> I'm about to start working on range extension thunks in lld. This is
> an attempt to summarize the approach I'd like to take and what the
> impact will be on lld outside of thunks.

Now that LLD works well for FreeBSD/amd64 (and arm64 is very close)
I'm looking at other architectures, starting with mips64. The
statically-linked toolchain components currently fail to link with an
out of range jump, so I'm very interested in seeing this work
progress. Are you looking at only arm and AArch64? Once the
infrastructure is in I'll try to take a look at mips if nobody else
does first.


I'm waiting for this changes too. Now mips thunks places at the end of the
corresponding section. Not sure about FreeBSD but on Linux that leads to
incorrect code in case of static linking -- a thunk goes between crt*.o
files which needs to be "joined" together. Gnu linker puts thunks to the
separate section. We need to do the same thing.
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