[PATCH] [MC][ELF] Work around R_MIPS_LO16 relocation handling problem
authorDimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
Mon, 3 May 2021 18:08:49 +0000 (20:08 +0200)
committerGianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>
Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:54:23 +0000 (05:54 +0000)
commita5cd472e88affd4cad2d46e7551e3d39e11be815
treed08577986f9d997a8b9a29ebb542f884609b7c17
parent6c82202ffaf7324163f951211d1b93cd8d7ede60
[PATCH] [MC][ELF] Work around R_MIPS_LO16 relocation handling problem

This fixes PR49821, and avoids "ld.lld: error: test.o:(.rodata.str1.1):
offset is outside the section" errors when linking MIPS objects with
negative R_MIPS_LO16 implicit addends.

ld.lld handles R_MIPS_HI16/R_MIPS_LO16 separately, not as a whole, so it
doesn't know that an R_MIPS_HI16 with implicit addend 1 and an
R_MIPS_LO16 with implicit addend -32768 represents 32768, which is in
range of a MergeInputSection. We could introduce a new RelExpr member
(like R_RISCV_PC_INDIRECT for R_RISCV_PCREL_HI20 / R_RISCV_PCREL_LO12)
but the complexity is unnecessary given that GNU as keeps the original
symbol for this case as well.

Reviewed By: atanasyan, MaskRay

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101773

Gbp-Pq: Topic mips
Gbp-Pq: Name mips-D101773-reloc.patch
llvm/lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp