libtarget.a?

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Sun Feb 17 15:55:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 06:16:50PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	eabi.asm is included for PowerPC GNU/Linux, not just eABI.  It
> includes the FPR and GPR save/restore routines to save space on prologues
> and epilogues.

Hadn't noticed that.  Thought eabi.asm was just that __eabi
relocation stub.  Those should probably be split apart...

> Those routines are needed in all executables and
> libraries and need to be called locally -- not through a stub.

Why not through a stub?  The input to these routines are
call-saved registers and the stack pointer, both of which
are preserved in dynamic linking.


r~



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