On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:18:53PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > " bltzal $0, here\n" > > " nop\n" > > "here: subu %0, $31, %0\n" > > Subtract shared address of "here" from address of "here" at build time > - and you know at which address byte 0 of the shared library is > loaded. Wait a second. Does bltzal fill in $31 even on a not-taken branch? Because bltzal $0 should never be taken. My handy MIPS reference and SPIM seem to agree that it won't fill in $31. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer