On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > > Actually for all code; we don't support GP optimization in any of our code > > models. > > Even for the user space code? Yes. GP optimization isn't comparible with SVR4 PIC code. I don't see a fundamental problem to get that to work but gcc refuses the use of -G with PIC code. What would limit the value of the GP optimization is that for alot of code a single 64kb GP data segment is not large enough; the IRIX compiler and Alpha binutils afaik support a multi-gp code model already. > Do you have a testcase to show what should be the desired behavior? As I > understand, the SHN_MIPS_SCOMMON section only appears in the relocatable > files. You won't see it in > executables nor DSOs. Are there any problems with SHN_MIPS_SCOMMON > in .o files? Can we always pass `-G 0' to the assemebler for Linux. It's already guanteed that we never use GP optimization. The particular case which was reported by the user was caused ld directly which defaults to -G 8. That's not an issue for userspace. Ralf
