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Re: mklibs on mips broken by gcc-4.3.x
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Chris Steel wrote:
> __gnu_local_gp seems to be a mips specific symbol in gcc, which is
> apparently used to provide -mno-shared support to gcc. The
> implementation of this symbol is in gcc-4.x.x/gcc/config/mips/mips.c
> and the only thing which seems to have changed between gcc-4.2.4 and
> gcc-4.3.1 is the parameters passed to emit_insn, and the addition of a
> LOADGP_RTP option.
Having run into this recently, I know what else changed: a
configure-time check was added to use -mno-shared by default.
Building with gcc 4.2 and -mno-shared will probably show the same
problem.
> Does anyone have any idea how this has broken, and how to work around
> / fix this in gcc or mklibs?
You'll have to make mklibs ignore this symbol; the linker defines it.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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