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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 16/25] init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:34 AM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote:
> With LTO, the compiler can rename static functions to avoid global
> naming collisions. As initcall functions are typically static,
> renaming can break references to them in inline assembly. This
> change adds a global stub with a stable name for each initcall to
> fix the issue when PREL32 relocations are used.

While I understand that this may be necessary for now, are there any
plans to fix this in the compiler in the future? There was a thread
about this issue at
<http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/thread.html#98047>,
and possible solutions were discussed there, but it looks like that
fizzled out...

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