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Re: [mips patch RFC] removal of gas embedded-pic support code
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:15:55PM -0700, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> Thanks for looking at this.
>
> At Wed, 05 May 2004 21:12:11 +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> > which is overridden in linux64.h by:
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > #undef ASM_PREFERRED_EH_DATA_FORMAT
> > #if 0 /* We can't use relative addressing modes on NEWABI :-( */
>
> What this doesn't say is "because they were GNU extensions for
> embedded-PIC support which weren't copied to the n32/64 support in
> BFD, apparently." 8-)
>
>
> > So mips64-linux-gnu doesn't use the same EH representation for o32.
>
> Right, so, then, which is *correct*?
>
> I'd say that the mips64-linux-gnu version is the "better" one, since
> the PC-relative 32/64 relocations were non-standard.
>
> But I have no idea how much pain would be caused by switching. Or
> whether (and how much) backward-compatibility needs to be maintained.
No compatibility needs to be maintained for this, AFAIK.
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Daniel Jacobowitz