Re: Setting up of GP in static, non-PIC version of glibc?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:10:50AM -0500, Jay Carlson wrote:

> By default non-PIC code *does* use $gp due to the brain damage in gas; 
> gas defaults to -G 8 unless told otherwise (-KPIC implies -G0 so we 
> don't see this in PIC code.)  gcc won't know anything about this, of 
> course.
> 
> What I'm doing in SUBTARGET_ASM_SPEC is to write something like 
> "%{fno-pic: %{!G: -G0}}"--if we're not in PIC mode, pass -G0 to gas by 
> default.
> 
> Anyway, once that's straightened out, -G8 does appear to work the way 
> you'd expect, with the code that Hartvig pasted above---I had written a 
> byte-for-byte identical patch :-)

I agree on that one except that 64kB of small data no longer seem to be
sufficient for every common application in the world.  So I'd vote for a
more defensive choice of the -G value, that is 0.

  Ralf