"small data" in m68k gcc?

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Gunther Nikl wrote:

>>This has been quite common practice on the Amiga to generate residentable
>>programs and reduce code and relocs size. Actually, the Amiga uses
>>A4-relative addressing because A5 is used as a frame pointer and A6 is
>>reserved for calling shared library functions through a jump table.
> 
>   Correct. The AmigaOS/m68k patches add two additional pic modes (word
>   and long sized) and handle these modes at those places where they work
>   differently to the normal pic/PIC modes. These mode do only affect data,
>   not function calls.

I'd be interested in having that code on the ColdFire too. It's
an opportunity for getting rid of all relocations and generating
smaller binaries.

But I'm afraid most uClinux binaries linked against uClibc
wouldn't fit into 64KB. And if you go for dynamic libraries,
then you need that ID_SHARED_LIBRARY mess :-(


>>On the Amiga, you'd use the "__loadds" function attribute for callbacks
>>and softints.
> 
>   __saveds

Yes, you already know about my memory problems :-)


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