On 16 November 2017 at 23:09, Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:14:17PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> OK, so my concern here is that this code probably only operates on >> fully linked binaries, and not partially linked object files like >> kernel modules. > > Right. That makes sense. > >> What is preventing us from using the large model with clang? > > We pass -mcmodel=large to clang, but I just confirmed that the > attribute isn't stored in LLVM IR, which means it's not used during > link time compilation. I'll see if we can solve this problem by > passing the correct code model directly to LLVMgold instead. Thanks > for pointing this out. >
So at which point is the IR in a partially linked object file converted into executable code?
