Software Convention Proposal

[Andreas Jaeger]

Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:31:06PM -0700, Kirkegaard, Knud J wrote:
>> This is a proposal to take advantage of the performance opportunities
>> available to several applications that don't require position independent
>> code and the default symbol preemption model described in the ELF ABI.
>
> It would have been helpful if you'd included some rationale.
> Since I met with yall to discuss this, I'll summarize quickly:
>
> IA-64, by default, uses PIC data references.  This avoids the
> horror of the .dynbss hack used on x86 (and others) to handle
> references from the main application to data in shared libraries.
> However, this does introduce unnecessary overhead when referencing
> data that does in fact reside in the main application.

So, for what architectures will this proposal bring any benefit?  Any
other archs besides ia64?

Andreas
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