Ralf Baechle writes: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:31:41PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > BTW: Who is "we"? Do you mean global data optimization is broken > > in gcc/binutils or just that no one at SGI is using it? > > It's an ECOFF specific optimization that just has been forward ported into > the ELF world. And what does this have to do with SGI anyway? I still don't get it. Why would one not use GP optimization with non-shared non-PIC code? It certainly is used throughout in the non-Linux MIPS world, and on the limited testing I did today it also worked fine. Is there something which is known not to work, or some conflict somewhere which prevents the general use of GP? /Hartvig
