[ORLinux] ELF relocations for PIC support

[Jonas Bonn]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 18:22 +0200, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> thanks for your reply.  Some observations:
> 
> On 16/06/2011 11:08, Jeremy Bennett wrote:
> > A more fundamental issue is to define the ABI for PIC (you'll see that
> > section in the manual is blank). One thought that the we restrict the
> > GOT to 64KB and shared objects to 128MB, we can reserve r10 to point to
> > the GOT. We also get some very compact sequences for handling the GOT
> > and PLTs.
> I guess the 64KB size depends from the offset that is possible to 
> specify to a JUMP instruction.  Is the 128MB value related to the same 
> reason (number of bytes of the immediate value considering the sign and 
> the shift)?
> 

I would expect that the 64kB GOT restriction comes from the desire to be
able to load a symbol value via the GOT as a single instruction:

l.ldw r15,r10,<16 bit immediate offset>

where r10 is the GOT register.

The 128MB limit for the shared object size would be that all local jumps
(within the shared object) are doable with a single instruction:

l.j <28 bit signed offset>

But, Jeremy and Joern are the experts here, so I'll leave it to them to
explain this precisely.

/Jonas