[PATCH v1] arm: relocate: Replace ADR instruction with non-pseudo-instruction

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 01:57:40PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:09:53 -0400
> Jesse Taube <mr.bossman075 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jesse,
> 
> > In Binutils 2.37 the ADR instruction has changed
> > use alternate instructions.
> 
> Can you elaborate on this? What has changed exactly, and why? Looking at
> the commit you mention below I don't see an immediate problem that would
> require code changes? Also it speaks of forward references, but this one
> is not one?
> And I didn't spot any difference between 2.38 and 2.35, at least not in my
> isolated test (but I didn't bother to compile a whole stage 1 GCC with
> newer binutils yet).

Some further references Jesse provided off-list:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59110205/why-do-forward-reference-adr-instructions-assemble-with-even-offsets-in-thumb-co

https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2019-11/msg00187.html

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25235

-- 
Tom
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