%pc relative addressing of string literals/const data

[Richard Henderson]

On 10/05/2010 02:40 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Especially one that doesn't require each function
> to calculate the GOT address in the function prologue(why is that so?)

Because PIC code can be called from non-PIC code and because
the non-PIC code does not load the GOT address.

Avoiding re-computation of the PIC register is something that
could be done via LTO and/or cgraph optimizations.  To my
knowledge, no one is working on that at present.


r~