[PATCH] Use MIPS jal instruction instead of jalr

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Sat Apr 30 00:42:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -0700, Ranjani Murthy wrote:
> A similar problem to the fix in
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-03/msg00106.html.
> The MIPS jalr instructions could cause a crash in CENABLE/CDISABLE.  
> The jalr instruction needs to be replaced with jal instruction.

Sure you don't want to do it the same way that the NPTL port does?

In fact, I don't see any related differences between the two.  The
LinuxThreads port I'm looking at restores $gp manually.  Where was
there a crash?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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