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Re: m68k reloc types

Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Which PIC modifier? It actually seems to work without one.
> So it seems "lea _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_(%pc),%a5" should work as well, 

No, it does not create a GOT.

> Ok, glibc did just answer me that question, it uses it in the startup 
> code. Does that mean we could get rid of the separate pic register as soon 
> as gcc knows about pc relative addressing?

32-bit pc-relative addressing is less efficient than 16-bit pic-register
relative addressing, both in code size and run time.

Andreas.

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