CPIC for mips

[reed kotler]

CPIC is added to .o files for mips a lot.

Is that needed?

What is it for?

Tia.

Reed

rkotler@ubuntu-rkotler:~/testmips16$ mips-linux-gnu-gcc null.c -c
mipsrkotler@ubuntu-rkotler:~/testmips16$ mips-linux-gnu-objdump -x null.o

null.o:     file format elf32-tradbigmips
null.o
architecture: mips:isa32r2, flags 0x00000011:
HAS_RELOC, HAS_SYMS
start address 0x00000000
private flags = 70001005: [abi=O32] [mips32r2] [not 32bitmode] 
[noreorder] [CPIC]

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
   0 .text         00000030  00000000  00000000  00000040  2**4
                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
   1 .data         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000070  2**4
                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
   2 .bss          00000000  00000000  00000000  00000070  2**4
                   ALLOC
   3 .reginfo      00000018  00000000  00000000  00000070  2**2
                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA, 
LINK_ONCE_SAME_SIZE
   4 .pdr          00000020  00000000  00000000  00000088  2**2
                   CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY
   5 .mdebug.abi32 00000000  00000000  00000000  000000a8  2**0
                   CONTENTS, READONLY
   6 .comment      0000002c  00000000  00000000  000000a8  2**0
                   CONTENTS, READONLY
   7 .gnu.attributes 00000010  00000000  00000000  000000d4  2**0
                   CONTENTS, READONLY
SYMBOL TABLE:
00000000 l    df *ABS*    00000000 null.c
00000000 l    d  .text    00000000 .text
00000000 l    d  .data    00000000 .data
00000000 l    d  .bss    00000000 .bss
00000000 l    d  .mdebug.abi32    00000000 .mdebug.abi32
00000000 l    d  .reginfo    00000000 .reginfo
00000000 l    d  .pdr    00000000 .pdr
00000000 l    d  .comment    00000000 .comment
00000000 l    d  .gnu.attributes    00000000 .gnu.attributes
00000000 g     F .text    00000024 main


RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.pdr]:
OFFSET   TYPE              VALUE
00000000 R_MIPS_32         main


rkotler@ubuntu-rkotler:~/testmips16$