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)
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