From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g1QIZOB30294 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:35:24 -0800 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (a1as04-p167.stg.tli.de [195.252.186.167]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g1QIZJ930290 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:35:20 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1QHMV725531; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:22:31 +0100 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:22:31 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jay Carlson Cc: Hartvig Ekner , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Setting up of GP in static, non-PIC version of glibc? Message-ID: <20020226182231.A25493@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020226125532.B7497@dea.linux-mips.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nop@nop.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:55:30AM -0500 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:55:30AM -0500, Jay Carlson wrote: > Right. In my ideal world, here's how it would work: > > cc1 defaults to -G0. I think we have that now. > > gas defaults to -G0. Messing with SUBTARGET_ASM_SPEC has that effect > for people who use the gcc driver, but anybody invoking gas directly > will still hit this problem, but too bad. > > So I think the primary constituency for gas defaulting to -G8 are > existing cygnuhhhh I mean redhat embedded MIPS customers, outside of > Linux; that's who we should check with before we change the default. So far we've been following the MIPS-UNIX tradition more than anything else. Ralf