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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:34:33 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Hartvig Ekner <hartvige@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Setting up of GP in static, non-PIC version of glibc?
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:16:20PM +0100, Hartvig Ekner wrote:

>         .globl ENTRY_POINT
>         .type ENTRY_POINT,@function
> ENTRY_POINT:
> #ifdef __PIC__
>         SET_GP
> #else
>         la  $28, _gp
> #endif
> 
> Makes things work (this code ends in crt1.o). Is this the right place to 
> fix it?

Non-PIC code doesn't use $gp, so any reference to $gp is a bug.  Note
that we don't support global data optimization for ELF either that is,
-G 0 is the default.

  Ralf