On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:24:48PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote: > > - I've dropped support for a non-fixed $gp. This is a handy > > optimization, but it was getting in the way and it was the part of the > > GCC patch Richard had the most comments on. I can resubmit it after > > everything else is merged. > > That's a shame. It was also the bit I liked best ;) What went wrong? > > (My comments were only minor.) Nothing big: but it made up the bulk of our GCC patch, and I was rebasing on top of yours. We had a lot of trouble getting that bit to work, so I took the conservative path and dropped it. Don't worry - I definitely will return to this as soon as the remaining patches are merged; I liked it too. Originally, we were also going to make small data work with non-PIC abicalls. I'd like to discuss that with you at some later date too. We ran into a lot of trouble combining small data with a non-fixed $gp; I believe it was because reload may introduce small data loads very late. I'd have to try it again before I had anything more sensible to say, though. > Sorry for the bugs, and thanks for fixing them. I'll try to have > a look at the patches over the weekend. No problem, and thank you for looking at them - and for your patches; I'm really pretty happy with the combined work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
