MIPS patch to avoid lazy binding in la macros

[Richard Sandiford]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> If you do this, you introduce another required version binding between
> GCC and binutils to create a working MIPS toolchain;

I don't think it's a hard requirement.  If you don't patch gcc,
the worst that's going to happen is that functions in new DSOs
won't be lazily bound.  OK, that might be quite bad in some
cases, but...

It only takes a simple patch to make gcc use the "jal" macro for
symbolic calls.  I'll volenteer to create patches against each
major 3.x release if you like.

> and it has some degree of ABI impact.

I disagree.  The ABI hasn't changed.

Richard