From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:37:45 -0700 Received: from u-11.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.19.11]:27918 "EHLO u-11.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:37:20 -0700 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:37:02 +0200 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:37:02 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Florian Lohoff Cc: Jun Sun , linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: The initial results (Re: stable binutils, gcc, glibc ... Message-ID: <20001019003702.B12745@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <39E7EB73.9206D0DB@mvista.com> <39ED2166.9B5F970@mvista.com> <20001018035719.F7865@bacchus.dhis.org> <20001018143003.C2354@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20001018143003.C2354@paradigm.rfc822.org>; from flo@rfc822.org on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:03PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:03PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > By thinking about this without any knowledge of the binutils code generation. > > How does this work if loop is only an external symbol ? The distance > will than be relevant when linking but then the code will already be there > and one would need to insert an instruction. Branches to external symbols aren't allowed with MIPS ELF objects. Ralf