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Re: How to add 'relaxing' to loader for m68k

From: Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>
To: amodra at bigpond dot net dot au
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Peter dot Barada at Motorola dot com
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:24:16 -0400
Subject: Re: How to add 'relaxing' to loader for m68k
References: <200204081631.g38GV2Z17166@hyper.wm.sps.mot.com> <20020408233931.GG1042@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>


>> What's the best way to go about this?  Does the assembler create
>> enough reloacation records to allow for proper relaxation (bsrl->bsrw
>> relaxation between a conditional branch and its target, etc)?
>
>You'll need to modify the asembler to emit relocs for code that is
>normally fully resolved by the assembler, eg. branches to local
>labels, because their offsets may change if intervening code is
>relaxed.

Ok, noted.  Anything else?

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