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Re: more PIC

To: law at cygnus dot com
Subject: Re: more PIC
From: Philip Blundell <pb at nexus dot co dot uk>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:24:07 +0100
cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>, richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com, egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com

>Presumably consttable_4, consttable_8 and consttable_end are never called
>to expand RTL during initial rtl generation?  If they are, then this patch
>would be incorrect since you can not save global data like that.

Yes, I was concerned about that at first myself.  But I believe it's safe; the 
consttable_N insns are only called by dump_table() to generate the literal 
table.

>Also, do we have assignments for Scott and Pat?  This looks small enough that
>I can probably safely take it.  But it is borderline and if Scott and Pat
>make additional contributions we'll need copyright assignments from them.

I think there should be assignments on file for them already.  I'll check at 
gnu.org.

p.

References:
- Re: more PIC
  - From: Jeffrey A Law

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