IA-64 gp problem with PROVIDE and linker relaxation conflict

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:37:18PM -0800, Jim Wilson wrote:
> > If I create a program that explicitly refers to the symbol __gp, and has
> > such a large text section that there are out-of-range calls and thus
> > requires -relax, then the value of __gp ends up wrong after the link.
> 
> Easiest would be to remove __gp from the default link scripts.

That would give you an "undefined symbol" error if __gp is referenced
from an object file.  elfxx_ia64_final_link is too late in the link.

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