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. Sami -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
