Currently, gcc-13 will generate such assembly when -mcmodel=medium,
which is ostensibly a dirty hack to allow bigger offsets for extern
function calls without having to add more reloc types. This is not the
best way to accomplish the original goal, but such usages will appear
soon and we have to support it anyway.
Example:
c extern int foo(int); int bar(int x) { return foo(x + 123); }
will produce the following (simplified) assembly when compiled with
-O2 -mcmodel=medium:
.globl bar .type bar, @function bar: .cfi_startproc addi.w $r4,$r4,123 pcalau12i $r12,%pc_hi20(foo) jirl $r0,$r12,%pc_lo12(foo) .cfi_endproc