All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] ARM relocation, question to Heiko
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:58:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA84598.9070204@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA8426E.4060505@gmail.com>

Le 03/10/2010 10:44, Graeme Russ a ?crit :

>> Bill just said that -pic (or, for ARM, -fPIC or -fPIE) was unnecessary
>> for relocation. You seem to imply it actually is... In my experience,
>> -fPIC and-fPIE do increase code by adding GOT relocation to symbols that
>> need fixing, so they would indeed be redundant to any other relocation
>> mechanism -- I just did some test with basic code and this seems to
>> confirm, no -fPIx is needed to get relocation the way you do on ARM.
>
> Just to clarify -fpic is a compiler option, -pic is a linker option. x86
> has no compile time relocation options (therefore no referencing .got etc).
> Using the link time pic option produces the relocation data table
> (.rel.dyn) which must be pre-processed before execution can begin at the
> relocated address

Thanks for clarifying, Graeme.

This is consistent with the ARM compile-time options -fPIC/-fPIE vs 
link-time option -pie. So there may be at least an interest in 
investigating ELF-style relocation on ARM and comparing it to GOT-based 
relocation in terms of FLASH and RAM sizes and code speed.

> Cheers,
>
> Graeme

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-03  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30 13:57 [U-Boot] ARM relocation, probably trivial mistake Reinhard Meyer
2010-09-30 14:08 ` Stefano Babic
2010-09-30 14:20   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-09-30 15:39     ` Heiko Schocher
2010-09-30 16:06       ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-09-30 15:38 ` Heiko Schocher
2010-09-30 17:43   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01  5:25     ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-01  5:40       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-01  5:53         ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-01  6:39           ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01  6:57             ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-01  8:45               ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01  7:01             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-01  7:42               ` [U-Boot] ARM relocation, probably trivial mistake - back to original problem Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01  8:27                 ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-01 10:44                   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01 10:55                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01 11:03                       ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01 11:21                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01 11:37                           ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01 11:59                             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01 12:22                               ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01 12:47                                 ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01 12:55                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01 14:55                                     ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-02  8:53                                       ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-01 15:47                                     ` Steve Sakoman
2010-10-02  7:15                                       ` [U-Boot] ARM relocation, question to Heiko Reinhard Meyer
     [not found]                                         ` <4CA6E517.9040701@fr<1286167382.22760.19.camel@ptyser-laptop>
2010-10-02  7:53                                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-02  8:10                                           ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-02  8:26                                             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-03 18:04                                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-02  9:08                                             ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-02  9:29                                               ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-03 18:05                                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-02 10:17                                               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-10-02 16:21                                                 ` J. William Campbell
2010-10-02 18:33                                                   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-03 18:22                                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-02 20:39                                                   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-02 21:09                                                     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-02 23:07                                                       ` Graeme Russ
2010-10-03  7:10                                                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-03  8:44                                                           ` Graeme Russ
2010-10-03  8:58                                                             ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2010-10-03 15:36                                                               ` J. William Campbell
2010-10-03 16:47                                                                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-03 17:54                                                                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-03 18:43                                                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  5:41                                                       ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-03 18:29                                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-03 19:26                                                       ` J. William Campbell
2010-10-04  5:52                                                       ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-03 18:14                                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-03 18:54                                                     ` J. William Campbell
2010-10-03 19:52                                                       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-03 18:03                                             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-03 18:34                                               ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-03 18:45                                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  6:08                                                 ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-04  6:40                                                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04  7:27                                                     ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04  8:28                                                       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04  8:57                                                         ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-04  9:27                                                           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04 10:01                                                             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-10-04  9:58                                                         ` Graeme Russ
2010-10-04 14:17                                                           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04 14:25                                                             ` Rogan Dawes
2010-10-04 15:24                                                               ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04 16:31                                                                 ` Stefan Roese
2010-10-04 21:31                                                                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04  7:44                                                     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04  4:43                                               ` Peter Tyser
2010-10-04  6:08                                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  7:36                                                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-10-04  8:08                                                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04  8:28                                                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-10-04  8:33                                                       ` Albert ARIBAUD
     [not found]                                                         ` <OF05779DA1.EF3C4954-ONC12577B2.00307A0D-C12577B2.0030B9C0@tran <4CAA1613.80002@comcast.net>
2010-10-04  8:52                                                         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-10-04  9:10                                                           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04 10:13                                                             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04 15:28                                                               ` J. William Campbell
2010-10-04 15:52                                                                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-04 17:06                                                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04 17:59                                                                   ` J. William Campbell
2010-10-04 18:43                                                                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-10-04 21:10                                                                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-05  7:26                                                                         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-10-04 17:04                                                               ` Graeme Russ
2010-10-04 17:14                                                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  8:27                                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-02  8:49                                     ` [U-Boot] ARM relocation, probably trivial mistake - back to original problem Heiko Schocher
2010-10-01 12:49                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01 14:48                                   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04  7:44                                     ` [U-Boot] AT91 clock and timer cleanups (was: ARM relocation, probably trivial mistake - back to original problem) Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04  8:32                                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  8:42                                         ` [U-Boot] AT91 clock and timer cleanups Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04  8:49                                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  8:52                                             ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04  9:03                                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  9:12                                                 ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04 14:58                                                   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04 17:00                                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04 17:15                                                       ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-04 17:32                                                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04 19:22                                                           ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01  8:48                 ` [U-Boot] ARM relocation, probably trivial mistake - back to original problem Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01  9:50                   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-01  8:03             ` [U-Boot] ARM relocation, probably trivial mistake Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01  7:51           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-01  8:28             ` Heiko Schocher

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4CA84598.9070204@free.fr \
    --to=albert.aribaud@free.fr \
    --cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.