[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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