[U-Boot] ARM relocation, question to Heiko

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote on 2010/10/04 23:10:31:
>
> Dear Joakim Tjernlund,
>
> In message <OFF06E784F.A10A5A15-ONC12577B2.0065FB3C-C12577B2.
> 0066D69F at transmode.se> you wrote:
> >
> > :), actually it wasn't that bad. Wolfgang nearly accepted the code even :)
>
> Yes, I was really tempted because I do appreciate the value of such a
> feature.
>
> > Mainly, I had to wrap code that accessed global data with a LINK_OFF() function
> > that calculated the offset and only in code that executed before relocation.
>
> That was the part that gave me the creeps. It looked too much
> unreadable and error prone to me, especially as this is not only a
> one-time conversion but has to be kept in mind for all changes to
> related code.

Yes, that is a bummer. If one could convince gcc to do %pc relative
addressing on strings/constant data the we would be in business I think.
Anyone got gcc connections?

>
> I'm still undecided, to be honest.