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Subject: Re: Setting up of GP in static, non-PIC version of glibc?
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In-Reply-To: <20020226182231.A25493@dea.linux-mips.net> from "Ralf Baechle" at Feb 26, 2002 06:22:31 PM
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Hi,

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.

We cannot change the default for non-Linux MIPS users without causing
massive problems. As far as I know, everybody uses -G8 as the default,
which can include such things as libraries (which may be delivered as
binary only).

So this is probably one of these things where the Linux/MIPS world will
do one thing, and the rest something else.

/Hartvig