Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation, objtool: Use absolute relocations for annotations

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:26:43AM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:

> I do not see why absolute things need 12 byte entries.
> We can freely use `.long .text.foo` even in ELFCLASS64 object files.
> There is no risk of overflow (the ultimate link .text.foo may have an
> address of 0xffffffff........) since the section will be discarded.

And you're sure no toolchain is going to be clever and tell me that the
absolute relocation will want to be 8 bytes and does not fit in the 4
bytes allotted?

Because clearly that is something some clever assembler is going to
complain about any day now.