This change adds support for the R_ARM_SBREL32 relocation. The relocation
is a base relative relocation that is produced by clang/llvm when -frwpi
is used. The use case for the -frwpi option is position independent data
for embedded systems that do not have a GOT. With -frwpi all data is
accessed via an offset from a base register (usually r9), where r9 is set
at run time to where the data has been loaded. The base of the data is
known as the static base.
The ARM ABI defines the static base as:
B(S) is the addressing origin of the output segment defining the symbol S.
The origin is not required to be the base address of the segment. For
simplicity we choose to use the base address of the segment.
The ARM procedure call standard only defines a read write variant using
R_ARM_SBREL32 relocations. The read-only data is accessed via pc-relative
offsets from the code, this is implemented in clang as -fropi.
Fixes PR32924
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33280
llvm-svn: 303337
Peter Smith