When emitting the difference between two symbols, the standard behavior is
that the difference will be resolved to an absolute value if both of the
symbols are offsets from the same data fragment. This is undesirable on
architectures such as RISC-V where relaxation in the linker may cause the
computed difference to become invalid. This caused an issue when compiling to
object code, where the size of a function in the debug information was already
calculated even though it could change as a consequence of relaxation in the
subsequent linking stage.
This patch inhibits the resolution of symbol differences to absolute values
where the target's AsmBackend has declared that it does not want these to be
folded.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45773
Patch by Edward Jones.
llvm-svn: 339864
Alex Bradbury