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Diffstat (limited to 'includes/rts/storage/InfoTables.h')
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diff --git a/includes/rts/storage/InfoTables.h b/includes/rts/storage/InfoTables.h index b97e12982b..b37d7294f6 100644 --- a/includes/rts/storage/InfoTables.h +++ b/includes/rts/storage/InfoTables.h @@ -14,17 +14,6 @@ Several pointer fields in info tables are expressed as offsets relative to the info pointer, so that we can generate position-independent code. - - Note [x86-64-relative] - There is a complication on the x86_64 platform, where pointers are - 64 bits, but the tools don't support 64-bit relative relocations. - However, the default memory model (small) ensures that all symbols - have values in the lower 2Gb of the address space, so offsets all - fit in 32 bits. Hence we can use 32-bit offset fields. - - Somewhere between binutils-2.16.1 and binutils-2.16.91.0.6, - support for 64-bit PC-relative relocations was added, so maybe this - hackery can go away sometime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #if defined(x86_64_HOST_ARCH) |