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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:27:00 -0000
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>, Richard Sandiford	<rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Update MIPS32 ABI baselines for _gp_disp
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> Since I last ran check-abi tests for MIPS32, it appears something has 
> changed in how the special _gp_disp symbols get reported in those tests.  
> I've applied this patch to update the baselines accordingly.

 You seem to be curing the symptoms here, it looks like a bug in binutils 
to me.  The _gp_disp symbol has no fixed value (it's "distance from PC to 
GP" used for relocs in text; it has special rules even for that, to 
determine the actual value of the PC to be used against) and as such it 
shouldn't get past the static link.  I can see it's now exported as a 
dynamic symbol even.

 Richard, do you happen to know what is going on here?

  Maciej