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Project / Subsystem
binutils / risc-v
Date
2026-09-24
Author
Kito Cheng <kito@sourceware.org>
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86f36538c5bba33aeec762b4907f37553c1a3173
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- RISC-V linker: Structure relax passes for extensibility
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- RISC-V linker's relax passes are now described by a data structure, improving maintainability and enabling new pass types.
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- Kito Cheng <kito@sourceware.org>
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- • risc-v
- • linker
- • optimization
- • refactor
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- 2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
The RISC-V linker previously used a chain of conditional branches to select relax functions and hard-coded the number of passes. This refactoring introduces a riscv_relax_pass structure to describe each pass, including its reloc selector and optional hooks. This change lays the groundwork for adding new relax passes, such as vendor-specific ones or those for Zcmt table jumps, without requiring extensive code modifications.