Handling of -fpic in ASM_OUTPUT_MI_THUNK in sparc

Jason Merrill jason@cygnus.com
Tue Nov 18 18:12:00 GMT 1997


>>>>> Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:

> Normal function calls use call not sethi+jmp.  The former case gets
> fixed up to a call through the PLT, the later results in runtime
> relocations to the read-only text segment.  Which works, but slows down
> startup unnecessarily.

Well, I suppose we could use call in all cases.  That would simplify the
code.  Does anyone with more SPARC experience have an opinion?

Jason



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