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From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>,
	egcs@cygnus.com, Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>,
	Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Painful problems with -fpic implementation on powerpc-sysv
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9808261614.AA32650@marc.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <768.904115205@hurl.cygnus.com>

>>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:

Jeff> We should select a callee saved register and reserve it for PIC.

	What does the SVR4 PPC ABI say about r2 which AIX uses for its
addressibility TOC register?  I thought that it was "reserved" or
something.  It's fixed throughout the PowerPC port -- both AIX and
SVR4/eABI.  IF not that one then you run into conflicts with argument
registers or saved registers.

David

  reply	other threads:[~1998-08-26 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <199807231243.WAA09035@geoffk.wattle.id.au>
     [not found] ` <98072823153402.00476@ns1102.munich.netsurf.de>
1998-08-20  0:51   ` Geoff Keating
1998-08-20  9:57     ` H.J. Lu
1998-08-20 15:53       ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-20 15:53     ` David Edelsohn
1998-08-21 12:51       ` Geoff Keating
1998-08-21 13:17         ` David Edelsohn
1998-08-23  7:45           ` Geoff Keating
1998-08-23  7:45             ` Franz Sirl
1998-08-23 23:15               ` Geoff Keating
1998-08-23 19:12             ` David Edelsohn
1998-08-26  0:13               ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-21 12:51     ` David Edelsohn
1998-08-24 18:48       ` Joern Rennecke
1998-08-26  0:13       ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-26 12:26         ` Richard Henderson
1998-08-26 20:55           ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-26 20:55             ` Richard Henderson
1998-08-26 20:55               ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-26  3:53     ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-26 11:57       ` David Edelsohn [this message]
1998-08-26 20:55         ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-27  0:40           ` Richard Henderson
1998-08-27 12:32             ` David Edelsohn
1998-08-27  0:40           ` David Edelsohn
1998-08-27 22:21             ` Geoff Keating
1998-08-27  6:18           ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
1998-08-26 12:26       ` Richard Henderson
1998-08-26 18:28         ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-08-28 15:55 Michael Meissner

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