relax jalr $t9 [R_MIPS_JALR symbol] to bal symbol

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Tue Mar 25 10:29:00 GMT 2003
On Mar 25, 2003, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:42:41AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> If someone makes a change that changes this kind of assumption, I'm
>> sure we're going to see a *lot* of code break.

> Possibly.  I'm still in favour of noisy breaks as opposed to quiet breaks.

Why, sure...  Feel free to invent a relocation type and implement it
on N32 and N64 REL and RELA, and then I may look into using it here
:-)

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