[PATCH] PPC64 elf configure

Steve Munroe sjmunroe@us.ibm.com
Wed Mar 12 23:15:00 GMT 2003


Richard Henderson writs:

> I think you misunderstand.  We're not putting anything into the
> TOC at all.  We're interested in a 32-bit displacement from the
> TOC base register to anything in the data segment.  It appears
> that PPC64 has the relocations for this, even if gcc does not
> support it at the moment.

Alan's note gives the current status of PPC64 gcc. We are just not there 
yet and the required restructuring is not a short term project.



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