Hello,
I'm trying to create position-independent ARM assembly code. For armcc I do
the following:
IMPORT foo
L_PIC ldr r0, L_FOO
add r0, pc, r0
...
L_FOO DCD foo - (L_PIC + 8)
which for gcc looks similar:
.extern foo
L_PIC: ldr r0, L_FOO
add r0, pc, r0
...
L_FOO: .word foo - (L_PIC + 8)
This works fine when using the GNU assembler. But when using Clang I get the
following weird error: "symbol '_foo' can not be undefined in a subtraction
expression". Looking at assembly code produced from C by the Clang compiler,
it does things differently, using the directive ".indirect_symbol", which gcc
and armcc don't support:
movw r0, :lower16:(L_FOO-(L_PIC+8))
movt r0, :upper16:(L_FOO-(L_PIC+8))
L_PIC: ldr r0, [pc, r0]
...
L_FOO: .indirect_symbol _foo
This would be fine except that I want to have one code base that can be built
on multiple architectures with different tools. In the short term, I'm looking
for an approach that will work with both gcc and Clang. In the longer term, it
would be nice if this could be "fixed" in Clang. (I put "fixed" in quotes
since I don't know if Clang has compatibility with armcc/gcc as a goal.)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Thanks,
Jeff Schenck
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