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From: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: avoid conditional branch to PLT in sigsetjmp.s
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:52:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ86T=UMe46n1F1fLuu=D4twpr+S3kexmSoo9LLvtWmK0dEJWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKF1srDwhkx++8WOKwtsu8NSwHXkA-29_wf0=yAe8o5Y=dUuw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 7:29 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:04 PM Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The R_ARM_THM_JUMP19 relocation type generated for the original code
> > when targeting Thumb 2 is not supported by the gold linker:
> >
> >  | .../arm-oe-linux-musleabi/9.2.0/ld: error: conditional branch to PLT in THUMB-2 not supported yet.
> >  | src/signal/arm/sigsetjmp.s:9: error: unexpected opcode while processing relocation R_ARM_THM_JUMP19
>
> if it is thumb2 specific another option could be to use `it eq` before
> beq which should turn branch into an unconditional branch, which then
> uses R_ARM_THM_JUMP24 relocation that has a range of 16MB.

That would work too. Thumb 2 specific code would need to be guarded by
#ifdef __thumb2__ though (which I think implies also renaming the file
from .s to .S ?) and I'm not sure if the extra complexity justifies
saving one instruction in the ARM case.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-18  6:04 Andre McCurdy
2019-09-18 14:28 ` Khem Raj
2019-09-18 17:52   ` Andre McCurdy [this message]
2019-09-18 19:54     ` Rich Felker
2019-11-21 20:54       ` Andre McCurdy
2019-12-07 18:03         ` Rich Felker

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