RFA: MIPS's _gp symbol and the new orphan-placement code

[Eric Christopher]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:41, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 09:37:23PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> > robust.  Does anyone have any comments about the new _gp assignment in
> > my patch?  Is it better, or could it lead to other problems?  Do you
> > prefer the idea of introducing new orphan placement hints and keeping
> > the assignment as-is?
> 
> I think your patch is OK, but I prefer the ". = ." hint for simplicity.
> As far as I'm concerned, it's up to one of the mips maintainers to
> say what they like.  ;)

I'm fine with it as he suggests. I don't have a strong opinion as long
as it's documented in some way :)

I can't remember if you commented the hints or not, could you please do
that if you didn't?

thanks.

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>