dynamic PIC register?

[Andreas Schwab]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

|> On Sep 20, 2001, dalej@apple.com wrote:
|> 
|> > On the Darwin powerpc target, it would be better not to have
|> > PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM be a fixed register.
|> 
|> I don't know anything about the implementation of shared libraries on
|> ppc, but if it uses a procedure linkage table, I don't see how the PIC
|> register may vary: the PLT in general depends on a specific register
|> pointing to the GOT (plus or minus some constant).

On the m68k the PLT does not depend on a PIC register at all (it gets the
address of the GOT by pc-relative addressing).  So it would benefit from a
non-fixed PIC register as well.

Andreas.

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