[project @ 2005-03-08 11:04:11 by simonmar]

x86_64: the assembler doesn't like generating 8-byte relative
relocations between text and rodata symbols.  Hack around this by
putting SRTs in the text segment for now.

ghc/driver/mangler/ghc-asm.lprl

@@ -227,6 +227,14 @@ sub init_TARGET_STUFF {
     $T_HDR_misc     = "\.text\n\t\.align 8\n";
     $T_HDR_data     = "\.data\n\t\.align 8\n";
     $T_HDR_rodata   = "\.section\t\.rodata\n\t\.align 8\n";
+
+	# the assembler on x86_64/Linux refuses to generate code for
+	#   .quad  x - y
+	# where x is in the text section and y in the rodata section.
+	# It works if y is in the text section, though.  This is probably
+	# going to cause difficulties for PIC, I imagine.
+    $T_HDR_relrodata= "\.text\n\t\.align 8\n";
+
     $T_HDR_closure  = "\.data\n\t\.align 8\n";
     $T_HDR_info     = "\.text\n\t\.align 8\n";
     $T_HDR_entry    = "\.text\n\t\.align 8\n";