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Without thunks, programs will encounter link errors complaining that the
branch target is out of range. Thunks will extend the range of branch
targets, which is a critical need for large programs. Thunks provide
this flexibility at a cost of some modest code size increase.
When configured with the maximal feature set, the hexagon port of the
linux kernel would often encounter these limitations when linking with
`lld`.
The relocations which will be extended by thunks are:
* R_HEX_B22_PCREL, R_HEX_{G,L}D_PLT_B22_PCREL, R_HEX_PLT_B22_PCREL
relocations have a range of ± 8MiB on the baseline
* R_HEX_B15_PCREL: ±65,532 bytes
* R_HEX_B13_PCREL: ±16,380 bytes
* R_HEX_B9_PCREL: ±1,020 bytes
Fixes #149689
Co-authored-by: Alexey Karyakin <akaryaki@quicinc.com>
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Co-authored-by: Alexey Karyakin <akaryaki@quicinc.com>
(cherry picked from commit b42f96bc057fd9e31572069b241ba130c21144e5)
LLVM Linker (lld)
This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.
lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.
Benchmarking
In order to make sure various developers can evaluate patches over the same tests, we create a collection of self contained programs.
It is hosted at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz
The current sha256 is 10eec685463d5a8bbf08d77f4ca96282161d396c65bd97dc99dbde644a31610f.