linux-kernel - Re: Avoiding unnecessary jump relocations in gas?

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Message-ID: <20150518201132.GG23618@pd.tnic>
Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 22:11:32 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	Binutils <binutils@...rceware.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Avoiding unnecessary jump relocations in gas?

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 01:01:15PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> We can also just do a macro:
> 
> .byte 0xe9 ; .long \target - 4 - .

We used to do that fun in some alternatives which got removed
recently... (by me). :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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