The Thumb BL and BLX instructions on older Arm Architectures such as v5 and
v6 have a constrained encoding J1 and J2 must equal 1, later Architectures
relaxed this restriction allowing J1 and J2 to be used to calculate a larger
immediate.
This patch adds support for the old encoding, it is used when the build
attributes for the input objects only contain older architectures.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50076
llvm-svn: 340159
Now that we have the ability to create short thunks, it is beneficial
for thunk sections to be surrounded by ThunkSectionSpacing bytes
of code on both sides in order to increase the likelihood that the
distance from the thunk to the target will be sufficiently small to
allow for the creation of a short thunk. This is currently the case
for most thunks that we create, except for the last one, which could,
depending on the size of the output section, potentially appear near
the end and therefore have a relatively small amount of code after it.
This patch moves the last thunk section to ThunkSectionSpacing bytes
before the end of the output section, as long as the section is larger
than 2*ThunkSectionSpacing bytes. It reduces the size of Chromium
for Android's .text section by 32KB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44966
llvm-svn: 328889
This change adds initial support for range extension thunks. All thunks must
be created within the first pass so some corner cases are not supported. A
follow up patch will add support for multiple passes.
With this change the existing tests arm-branch-error.s and
arm-thumb-branch-error.s now no longer fail with an out of range branch.
These have been renamed and tests added for the range extension thunk.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34691
llvm-svn: 316752
Fangrui Song