The R_(MICRO)MIPS_JALR optimization only works when used against functions.
Using the relocation against a data symbol (e.g. function pointer) will
cause some linkers that don't ignore the hint in this case (e.g. LLD prior
to commit 5bab291b7b) to generate a relative branch to the data symbol
which crashes at run time. Before this patch, LLVM was erroneously emitting
these relocations against local-dynamic TLS function pointers and global
function pointers with internal visibility.
Reviewers: atanasyan, jrtc27, vstefanovic
Reviewed By: atanasyan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72571
The callee address is added as an optional operand (MCSymbol) in
AdjustInstrPostInstrSelection() and then used by asm printer to insert:
'.reloc tmplabel, R_MIPS_JALR, symbol
tmplabel:'.
Controlled with '-mips-jalr-reloc', default is true.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56694
llvm-svn: 351485
Alex Richardson