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Hi, Does lld support linker relaxation that may shrink code size? As far as I see lld seems to assume that the content of input sections to be fixed other than patching up relocations, but I believe some targets may benefit the extra optimization opportunity with relaxation. Specifically, I'm currently working on adding support for RISC-V in lld, and RISC-V heavily relies on linker relaxation

...createThunks(), or perhaps the mechanisms would need to be > merged as I think they'll need to converge on a point when no more > relaxations are possible and no more thunks can be added. > > Writing out the relaxed sections will be interesting as you won't want > all of the InputSectionContents. I suggest looking at EHFrame and > MergeInputSections for ideas. > > Hope that is of some use > > Peter > > [*] For example in pseudo ARM > > ldr r0, [pc, offset] ; where pc + offset == label > ... > relaxable sequence such as an indirect jump via a reg...

...ms would need to be >>> merged as I think they'll need to converge on a point when no more >>> relaxations are possible and no more thunks can be added. >>> >>> Writing out the relaxed sections will be interesting as you won't want >>> all of the InputSectionContents. I suggest looking at EHFrame and >>> MergeInputSections for ideas. >>> >>> Hope that is of some use >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> [*] For example in pseudo ARM >>> >>> ldr r0, [pc, offset] ; where pc + offset == label &gt...