On 03/16/2010 12:28 PM, David Miller wrote: > It's not the assemblers fault. > > We're using %hi() and expecting the assembler to emit a > PC relative relcation just because the symbol name happens > to be _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ And it will do this, but only > when -PIC. Changing that is pretty dangerous.
It is the assembler's fault because it doesn't provide %pcrelhi() or some such to allow the compiler (or asm programmer) to emit exactly the relocation that's desired. > But even if we got past that, we need to get the assembler options > right in order to enable instruction classes. For example we have to > get -Av9a there when using VIS instructions. How about ".arch v9a" like other platforms emit? Command-line options that control what the assembler emits for the exact same bit of text are a Really Bad Idea, as we've seen from other platforms time and time again. r~
