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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Gilad Benjamini <yaelgilad@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: "-G" optimizations
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:16:20PM +0000, Gilad Benjamini wrote:

> was compiled with "-G0" while a module was compiled
> with "-G8".
> Is this a legal combination ?
> If it isn't, what could the implications be ?

It's never legal.  The -G option addresses data relative to $28 but Linux
uses it already to store the current pointer.

  Ralf