target/3925: [ARM/Thumb] Assembler chokes on branches with (PLT)

[Richard Earnshaw]

The following reply was made to PR target/3925; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
Cc: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, pb@gcc.gnu.org,
        fnf@ninemoons.com, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: target/3925: [ARM/Thumb] Assembler chokes on branches with 
 (PLT)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:25:46 +0000

 pb@nexus.co.uk said:
 > My point was that there are cases where people want to build a "shared
 > object" (in the sense of "gcc -shared") but don't ever intend to have
 > more than one copy of it resident in memory at once.  In that
 > situation, having relocations in the text section is sometimes
 > acceptable for the sake of saving the time and space that is required
 > for the PLT. 
 
 I think that would be better done by adding some sort of import-list 
 support to the linker.  Then only symbols in the import list would need to 
 go through a PLT, and all others could be resolved internally.  For 
 compatible behaviour of course, no import list would imply that all 
 symbols are potentially imported.
 
 R.