MIPS patch to avoid lazy binding in la macros

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Sat Feb 22 16:00:00 GMT 2003


On Feb 20, 2003, Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> wrote:

> But due to a suspect feature, gas treats

>         la $25,foo

> as a special case and allows foo to be lazily bound.  Not the
> desired effect. ;)

How about doing the lazy binding but, if you find any intervening use
of $25 between the la and the jump to $25, you force early binding?

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