[llvm-dev] PIC preferred too strongly, even at CodeModel::Large?

Ramkumar Ramachandra via llvm-dev
Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:40:59 -0000

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Just to avoid any confusion, your code is well within 4GB, but the
> location of the jump table can be more than 4GB away? I'm asking as one
> of the open issues for me in the PowerPC target is supporting
> function-relative jump tables, so that the jump table needs only 32bit
> entries as long as a single function is not longer than 4GB.

Yes, that's right.

Ram