[Patch] was: MIPS assembler no longer "combines symbols in different segments"...

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> >  How about updating GCC so that it does not emit these problematic 
> > statements?  Either your local copy or the 3.3 branch (if there is 
> > interest).  Using older binutils is another option.
> 
> The comment is missing the most important piece of data - _why_ it
> should no longer be used.  I don't see a legitimate reason.

 The relocation isn't a part of the SysV ABI and was never meant to be 
used by Linux.  Its use by GCC must have been a mistake -- someone did a 
bad implementation and it worked by accident thanks to binutils supporting 
the needed relocation for embedded-PIC targets.

> I recently implemented another PIC model for MIPS, separate from
> embedded-PIC but sharing a couple of properties, and this support was
> extremely useful.  I haven't had the time to contribute it back yet but
> I hope to sometime after 2.16.

 For another ABI it should be OK to use.  It's just it's not a part of the 
Linux ABI.

  Maciej