GCC generates non-compliant MIPS relocation data? Obscure GNU extension?

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  It looks to me however that you actually have control over the relocation 
> processing code you have referred, so how about improving it to handle the 
> GNU R_MIPS_HI16 extension as well?

 FWIW note that the extension has been around for ~25 years now (which I 
forgot to mention previously).

  Maciej