On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Jim Wilson wrote: > > I commented on it once, in the course of the FDPIC design project, and I > > find it broken by design. Sadly it has made it into the RISC-V psABI and > > it is hard to revert at this time, too many places have started relying on > > it. > > > > It was already a production ABI before you asked for the change. And > changing a production ABI is extremely difficult. You were not the first > to complain about this, and you probably won't be the last. Thanks for chiming in. I accepted it as a fact of life, but we don't have to follow the mistake with the MIPS psABI. If you ever decide to have a RISC-V NewABI just as MIPS did at one point, then you can reevaluate the choices made. At least there are no REL relocations there with RISC-V, it was a gross mistake to have them with MIPS o32. I think we can try switching away from them with R6, or at least evaluate what would be required to do so. Maciej
