new way of generating crt[ni].o [patch]

Zack Weinberg zack@bitmover.com
Fri Sep 3 10:39:00 GMT 1999


Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.

I agree.  I did it this way because I'm not competent to write the
assembly stubs.

zw


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