[PATCH] MIPS: microMIPS ASE support

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@codesourcery.com
Thu Dec 16 15:28:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> >  Joseph, I reckon you were involved with this piece -- did I get all the 
> > context right here?
> 
> Yes.  A call to an undefined weak function is equally valid at compile and 
> link time and invalid at execution time if executed whether or not the 
> code is compiled in such a way as to support cross-mode jumps.  Such a 
> call is a call to an undefined function, never a call to an other-mode 
> function, and so the linker should never give errors for cases such as 
> JALS where it cannot convert to a cross-mode jump.  The original observed 
> problem case was statically linking sln with a call to 
> __nptl_deallocate_tsd that never gets executed in single-threaded 
> programs.

 OK, thanks for confirmation.

  Maciej



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