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Re: [PATCH 4/9] [ARC] Don't convert _DYNAMIC@ to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_


Hi Cupertino,

> From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
> 
> Historically the arc abi demanded that a GOT[0] should be referencible as
> [pc+_DYNAMIC@gotpc].  Hence we convert a _DYNAMIC@gotpc to a GOTPC reference to
> _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.
> 
> This is no longer the case and uClibc and upcomming GNU libc don't expect this
> to happen.

Is there going to be a legacy problem with this change to the ABI ?

IE is it possible that code compiled with the old ABI will be linked with code
compiled with the new ABI, and hence run into problems ?
 
Cheers
  Nick


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