From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Vlad Lungu <vlad@comsys.ro>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:13:03 +0300
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] _gp in current u-boot.lds for MIPS ports
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Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Shinya Kuribayashi,
>
> on IRC you asked:
>   
>> In Current u-boot.lds for MIPS ports, _gp is basically equals to __got_start.
>>     
Is equal to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_  in current tree. Only if you change 
it to
.=ALIGN(16);
gp=.;
it's always equal to __got_start.
>> Is this intentional, or not?
>> If this is intentional for simplification, I'll take into account such original intention.
>>     
It might have been done to simplify the code or shave a few insns, but 
it had the potential to bite us, and  it did exactly that.
 
Cheers,
Vlad