DSO: pc relative symbol address

[Ian Lance Taylor]

kum <a.kumaresh@gmail.com> writes:

> There are no direct invocation of my_foo1. What prevents the compiler
> from emitting a PC relative address to store in my_foo? Something like
>   lw $2, PC - <offset>

You need to get the address of my_foo1 into $2.  Using a PC relative
value only works if your processor has a PC-relative load instruction.
Not all processors have such an instruction.  If your processor has
one and gcc is not using it, then this may be a bug.

Ian