636beb6a28
For
add %reg1, name@GOTTPOFF(%rip), %reg2
add name@GOTTPOFF(%rip), %reg1, %reg2
{nf} add %reg1, name@GOTTPOFF(%rip), %reg2
{nf} add name@GOTTPOFF(%rip), %reg1, %reg2
{nf} add name@GOTTPOFF(%rip), %reg
add
R_X86_64_CODE_6_GOTTPOFF = 50
in #117277.
Linker can treat R_X86_64_CODE_6_GOTTPOFF as R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF or
convert the instructions above to
add $name@tpoff, %reg1, %reg2
add $name@tpoff, %reg1, %reg2
{nf} add $name@tpoff, %reg1, %reg2
{nf} add $name@tpoff, %reg1, %reg2
{nf} add $name@tpoff, %reg
if the first byte of the instruction at the relocation offset - 6 is
0x62 (namely, encoded w/EVEX prefix) when possible.
Binutils patch: bminor/binutils-gdb@5bc71c2
Binutils mailthread:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2024-February/132351.html
ABI discussion:
https://groups.google.com/g/x86-64-abi/c/FhEZjCtDLFw/m/VHDjN4orAgAJ
Blog: https://kanrobert.github.io/rfc/All-about-APX-relocation
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.