[mips patch rfc/rfa] get rid of coff embedded-pic support.

[Nigel Stephens]

Thiemo Seufer wrote:

>Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
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>>On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Eric Christopher wrote:
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>>>>I'd like to retain the ELF MIPS_R_PCREL16, and implement external
>>>>branches with it again.
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>>>? Why?
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>I guess this question was about the GNU ECOFF extension reloc, which
>I'm not really interested in. :-)
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>> Well, some people find it useful.  I wouldn't mind it, either.  The i386
>>ELF even supports 8-bit external branches (yes, +127/-128), so MIPS with
>>its 18-bit range doesn't even look close to insanity.
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>Indeed, it can save some insns in hand-coded critical paths, without
>the need of lumping all of it in one file. The code has just to reside
>in a +-128k range, which should be easy to achieve.
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Seconded. In embedded code it's useful for building (for example) 
position-independent bootstrap code where the code isn't all in the same 
file.

Nigel