Painful problems with -fpic implementation on powerpc-sysv
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Wed Aug 26 11:57:00 GMT 1998
>>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
Jeff> We should select a callee saved register and reserve it for PIC.
What does the SVR4 PPC ABI say about r2 which AIX uses for its
addressibility TOC register? I thought that it was "reserved" or
something. It's fixed throughout the PowerPC port -- both AIX and
SVR4/eABI. IF not that one then you run into conflicts with argument
registers or saved registers.
David
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