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Reuse of reloc_howto_type depending on section

Martin Walter martin.walter@gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 19:06:00 GMT 2009 
2009/7/27 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
> Martin Walter wrote:
>
>> I am currently porting the Binutils to a new architecture and ask for
>> your help in the following issue: The target architecture requires all
>> addresses to the instruction memory (in control transfer instructions)
>> to be multiples of 2 (since all instructions are 16 bits wide and
>> properly aligned), whereas the data memory can be accessed on a per
>> byte basis. Now, the assembler allows for functions lo(), hi(), 3rd(),
>> 4th() within load instructions to extract portions of a symbol, and
>> these are used to access both the instruction memory and the data
>> memory.
>>
>> What I would like to do is to let relocations be right shifted by an
>> additional 1 if the symbol within lo(), hi(), etc. refers to the .text
>> section. Currently, all symbols are right shifted by this amount in
>> the relocation process (but this is a failure for symbols referring to
>> the data memory).
>
>> /* A second byte absolute relocation of 32-bit address. */
>> HOWTO (R_SPEAR32_HI,       /* type */
>>        9,                                    /* rightshift */
>
>
>  Would it be simplest to define two different relocations, R_SPEAR32_HI and
> R_SPEAR32_HI_TEXT for example, that use different rightshift values, and take
> care to emit the correct one according to the symbol section in the assembler
> when parsing the lo()/hi()/etc. ?
>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK
>

Hi DaveK,

I also thought about this solution, but the parse function of the
assembler has signature
(CGEN_CPU_DESC cd, const char **strp, int opindex, long *valuep) and
therefore does not include any information about the section of the
symbol.

By the way, to anyone who reads this, I do not rely on reusing the
reloc_howto_type, any solution would be great!

Thank you,
Martin
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