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2017 Apr 04
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[LLD] RFC Range Thunks Implementation review for ARM and Mips
...s it must be added to the correct
InputSectionDescription. For the implementation I have chosen to add
Thunks to OutputSection.Sections and then merge these into the
InputSectionDescriptions for the OutputSection.
Placement of range extension thunks
I have chosen a simple implementation of spacing ThunkSections a
Target dependent distance apart. For ARM (lld currently supports v7a)
this is set to the Thumb2 branch range of 16Mb. If a thunk cannot be
created in one of these spaced out ThunkSections a new ThunkSection is
created. This allows special cases such as the Thumb2 conditional
branch with a range o...