Re: Where is the splitting of MIPS %hi and %lo relocations handled?

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> writes:
>
>
> > I am going to try to fix:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29721
> >
> > Which is a problem where a %lo relocation gets separated from its
> > corresponding %hi.
> >
> > What is the mechanism that tries to prevent this from happening?  And
> > where is it implemented?
>
>
> This implemented by having the assembler sort the relocations so that
> each %lo relocations follows the appropriate set of %hi relocations.
> It is implemented in gas/config/tc-mips.c in append_insn.  Look for
> reloc_needs_lo_p and mips_frob_file.
>
> At first glance the assembler does appear to handle %got correctly, so
> I'm not sure why it is failing for you.

Did you look at the assembly fragment in the PR?

Is it correct in that there is a pair of %got/%lo in the middle of 
another %got/%lo pair?

David Daney,