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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: understanding elf_machine_load_address
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:18:53PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >        "	bltzal $0, here\n"
> >        "	nop\n"
> >        "here:	subu %0, $31, %0\n"
> 
> Subtract shared address of "here" from address of "here" at build time
> - and you know at which address byte 0 of the shared library is
>   loaded.

Wait a second.  Does bltzal fill in $31 even on a not-taken branch? 
Because bltzal $0 should never be taken.  My handy MIPS reference and
SPIM seem to agree that it won't fill in $31.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer