News MIPS option -mno-shared

Thiemo Seufer ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Fri Dec 10 14:12:00 GMT 2004


Dave Korn wrote:
[snip]
>   David, another thing that could break your code is if the MIPS gcc port starts
> to use RTL prolog generation; when that happens, you'll start to see code where
> instructions from the body of the function are migrated upward in among prolog
> instructions by the scheduler.

FWIW, the o32 ABI IIRC requires the gpsetup to make up the first three
instructions of a function. I think for exactly the reasons discussed
before.


Thiemo



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