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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Setting up of GP in static, non-PIC version of glibc?
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:32:50PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> > It's an ECOFF specific optimization that just has been forward ported into
> > the ELF world.  And what does this have to do with SGI anyway?
> 
> I was wondering who you speak for when you say "we don't
> support foobar", and your email is @oss.sgi.com.

You seem to be unaware that half of oss users are ex-sgi employees :-)

> I was just trying to decode the meaning of what you said.
> Like, did you mean "I don't care about it" or "The tools are
> totally broken and you have to go along way to use it"?
> 
> The global data optimization would fit dietlibc's goal
> of as-small-as-possible, statically linked binaries. But
> from what you said I gather I would have to fix gcc and
> binutils first.

See also my other email about the status of -G.

  Ralf