Re: assert (! "unexpected dynamic reloc type");

[Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>]

> Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> 
> > Say what??  This is code that is never even reached unless there is a fatal
> > problem.  
> 
> You have to look how gcc generates code.  Since gcc so far does not use
> block reordering, code for ifs are generated like this:
> 
> 	cmp
> 	jump if not to label
> 
> 	code for if
> 
> label:
> 
> Therefore a larger `if code' is polluting the icache significantly.

I see.  Well, I was already planning to use a call to a separate function
to do the message formatting and panic, just to consolidate the code for
all platforms.  The current code calls __assert_fail, with four arguments.
The bad-reloc-type panic function will need only two args (link_map and reloc),
so the code will be smaller.