m68k reloc types

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Aug 17 09:38:00 GMT 2004


Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:18:45AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Ok, I understand now what you were trying to say.  But that would only
>> work for non-dynamic symbols, since you must go through the GOT if you
>> reference a global symbol.
>
> Of course.  But there are generally a *lot* of non-dynamic symbols.

Agreed, although probably much less in C++.  But if they are references
more than once in a function then cse'ing the address is usually faster
anyway.

Andreas.

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