new way of generating crt[ni].o [patch]
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@cygnus.com
Thu Sep 2 23:59:00 GMT 1999
Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com> writes:
> The new x86 back end wants to generate trampolines to load the PIC
> base register all the time (yes, even with -march=i386). The current
> crt[in] generation can't handle this. So I rewrote it again.
It looks interesting but this whole changes really suggest that we go
with hand-written code. It's only a few lines. We could keep the
current scheme (maybe your rewrite) as a backup solution, e.g., to help
new ports to a quick start.
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