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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Patch to fix MIPS -mno-shared with multi-got...
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050304004114.GA9623@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050303232729.GP1272@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:27:29AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> David Daney wrote:
> > But it is possible to have C code like this:
> > 
> > extern int _gp;
> > 
> > 
> > int
> > foo()
> > {
> >   int *bar = &_gp;
> > /* Do something with the primary GOT */
> > }
> > 
> > In this case the existing semantics are clear.  It is the primary GOT.
> 
> Whithout having looked it up, I doubt the ABI gives the program any
> guarantee about the contents of the GOT.

I know at least one dynamic linker that works this way.  Of course, it
uses the symbol _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ for consistency with other
platforms, so it won't be directly affected; but there may be others.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-04  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-03 21:05 David Daney
2005-03-03 21:48 ` Richard Sandiford
2005-03-03 22:34   ` David Daney
2005-03-03 22:49     ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-03-03 23:15       ` David Daney
2005-03-03 23:27         ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-03-04  0:41           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-03-03 23:57       ` David Daney
2005-03-04  0:43         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-04  9:36         ` Richard Sandiford
2005-03-04 19:43           ` New " David Daney
2005-03-04 19:45             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-04 21:53               ` David Daney
2005-03-04 22:12                 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-03-04 22:21                   ` David Daney
2005-03-04 23:40                     ` Eric Christopher
2005-03-05  0:03                     ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-03-04  4:31     ` RFC: " Ian Lance Taylor

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