[PATCH] PIC support for SH

[NIIBE Yutaka]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
 > It is my understanding that Hitachi had told us to use this range.
 > But I may be mistaken.

Strange.  Hitachi assigned 160-167 for that, here in Japan.  Perhaps,
there would be some dis-communication.  We'll check it again too.

 > > In our implementation, we use the assigned number (by Hitachi)
 > > 160-167 for this purpose.
 > 
 > Leaving a huge hole in the numbering?  That sounded too awful.

Agreed.  Unfortunately, yes.  It seemed that they didn't understand
how useful the shared librarie is, at least at that time.  Then, they
allocated not-likely-to-be-used area with some sort of prejudice.
Ugh.

However, now, with working GNU C libarary port which supports dynamic
loading, we can demonstrate how useful it is, you know. :-)

IMHO, if the processor has MMU and Linux being ported, why not support
dynamic load?  I believe that it could be quite useful for embedded
system too.

We'll get back to you, later.
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