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Re: RFC: Adding non-PIC executable support to MIPS
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:29:42PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> No, you're probably right. Sorry for missing this.
No trouble. I have found one caveat: MIPS16 call stubs generated by
GCC sometimes make an indirect call through $1. When TARGET_ABICALLS,
it should be possible to make the call through $25. Or if the
instruction set does not permit, make the call through $1 but also set
$25. I don't think I'll be able to test MIPS16 code generation, but
I'll include a patch for this in the submission I'm preparing.
I've also found one potential problem. But it's a really unusual
case, so I do not plan to fix it - at least not in the first
submission. If we mark a function as PIC after ld -r, and then it is
converted to a local symbol by something like objcopy, we'll fail to
create a stub for it.
Otherwise, so far everything looks fine.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery