Re: linker relaxation

[naga raj <gnuuser dot raj at gmail dot com>]

Hi Nick,

   Thanks for the reply. I will look in to it.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Nagaraju,
>
>> ? ?But my linker is not decreasing relaxed instructions space as a
>> result debug_loc locations in the dwarf2 debugging information is
>> displaying the address ranges that are generated by compiler.
>
>> ? ?I know this is a known issue in linker relaxation, but as a newbie
>> to binutils I could not figure it out where to change in my code.
>
> The most likely place is:
> bfd/elf32-microblaze.c:microblaze_elf_relax_section().
>
> It is also possible that the DWARF debug_loc address ranges are being
> computed by the assembler, rather than the linker. ?Hence they are fixed
> before relaxation occurs and so cannot be corrected by the linker. ?Have a
> look at gas/config/tc-mn10300.c:
> mn10300_allow_local_subtract() for an example of port that has this problem
> and how it was fixed there.
>
> Cheers
> ?Nick
>
>

Thanks,
Nagaraju