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Visual studio uses rip-relative addressing (rra) extensively in 64 bit binaries. ParseRel32RelocsFromSection does not find these addresses, which causes courgette to miss a lot of rva pointers, and thus missing a lot of compresssion opportunities.

This patch makes the ParseRel32RelocsFromSection find rip relative call/jmp/lea. It also finds mov's that load from memory using rra's.

Based on CL by niels.werensteijn.teamspeak@gmail.com in crrev.com/212563003

This change gives a noticeable improvement on 64-bit binaries. Against test binaries (64-bit chrome.dll 40.0.2214.115->43.0.2317.0) the patch sizes were:

Uncompressed:
before: 10,948,152
after: 9,948,442 (9.1% reduction)

Compressed (7z ultra):
before: 6,084,670
after: 5,581,502 (8.3% reduction)

BUG=459064
TEST=courgette_unittests

Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/878043002

Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#321524}