Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Wrap '--pic-veneer' with ld-option

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 4:27 AM Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 05.12.2018 20:45, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 07:39:55PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 19:36, Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 09:09:56AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> > > (+ Arnd)
> >> > >
> >> > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 09:06, Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:37:05AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> > > > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 02:42, Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > This flag is not supported by lld:
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >     ld.lld: error: unknown argument: --pic-veneer
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Hi Nate,
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Does this mean ld.lld is guaranteed to produce position independent
> >> > > > > veneers if you build kernels that are bigger than the typical range of
> >> > > > > a relative branch?

Just for the list, 2 patches to lld:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/286#issuecomment-452027802


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~Nick Desaulniers