Summary:
Unlike R_RISCV_RELAX, which is a linker hint, R_RISCV_ALIGN requires the
support of the linker even when ignoring all R_RISCV_RELAX relocations.
This is because the compiler emits as many NOPs as may be required for
the requested alignment, more than may be required pre-relaxation, to
allow for the target becoming more unaligned after relaxing earlier
sequences. This means that the target is often not initially aligned in
the object files, and so the R_RISCV_ALIGN relocations cannot just be
ignored. Since we do not support linker relaxation, we must turn these
into errors.
Reviewers: ruiu, MaskRay, espindola
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Subscribers: grimar, Jim, emaste, arichardson, asb, rbar, johnrusso, simoncook, sabuasal, niosHD, kito-cheng, shiva0217, zzheng, edward-jones, rogfer01, MartinMosbeck, brucehoult, the_o, rkruppe, PkmX, jocewei, psnobl, benna, lenary, s.egerton, pzheng, sameer.abuasal, apazos, luismarques, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71820
James Clarke