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Re: problems with PIC, casesi patterns on m68k
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:08:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: problems with PIC, casesi patterns on m68k
- References: <200301222246.h0MMkaL25117@hyper.wm.sps.mot.com>
Peter Barada <pbarada@mail.wm.sps.mot.com> writes:
|> Unfortunately in the process, access to the case vector table
|> label was through the GOT, something which is *very* bad, especially
|> in ld.so where it attempts to apply the relocations to the GOT by
|> using a switch table(which fails miserably because the GOT hasn't been
|> relocated yet!).
It would not be the first architecture where you can't use switch early in
the dynamic linker.
Andreas.
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