2.10.91: A problem with R_MIPS_CALL relocations within gas

[Hiroyuki Machida]

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Subject: Re: 2.10.91: A problem with R_MIPS_CALL relocations within gas
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:16:08 +0100 (MET)

> > 2. Make new macro like "la_lazy" to inform lazy-bind-able symbol to GAS.
> >    Change GCC and GAS to use it. This chage is not so hard. But in
> >    this way, we have to chage both GCC and GAS at the same time.  
> >    I don't know everyone accept such a kind of change. 
> 
>  This sounds feasible.  But maybe it would be better to define and use new
> operators, such as "%call", "%call_hi" and "%call_lo".  We could apply
> CALL relocs to any opcodes then and the syntax would be coherent.  And we
> need not change both programs at once -- we might change GCC later.

Your idea introducing new operators sounds good for me.

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Hiroyuki Machida
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