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Re: [mips] fix $gp restore bug
- From: Adam Nemet <anemet at caviumnetworks dot com>
- To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips dot org>
- Cc: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>, Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:16:23 -0800
- Subject: Re: [mips] fix $gp restore bug
- References: <49870BD7.8050707@codesourcery.com> <87iqnswrzu.fsf@firetop.home> <4987F33C.1060408@codesourcery.com> <8763jrcmdo.fsf@firetop.home> <87r61fli49.fsf@firetop.home> <alpine.LFD.1.10.0903022352330.18052@ftp.linux-mips.org>
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> writes:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>> Oh, curse MIPS for not having a MIPS16-like ADDIUSP instruction!
>
> Let's face it -- it's not the instruction list which is inadequate. It
> is the decision to make $gp call-clobbered for o32 which was suboptimal.
> There was a reason it got fixed with the advent of the new ABIs (along
> with a number of other issues).
AIUI, the problem exists with the new ABIs as well. You either ensure that
the GOT pointer is live at each branch pessimizing the code or you need a
different way of fetching the destination address into a register.
Adam