On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 06:54:39PM -0700, Vincent Wen wrote:
Alan,
Who is the MIPS maintainer?
Theoretically Eric Christopher, but binutils/MAINTAINERS lists an
old email address and it's been a while since we've seen him around
here. Eric, can you comment on the code below?
Yeah, it's been a while. Sorry about that. I'll update everything at some point
though I'm no longer doing anything with MIPS (or mn10300) so while I can
pitch in on occasion I could also move myself to write-after-approval
if you'd like.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:24:51AM -0700, Vincent Wen wrote:
Alan,
I'd like to know whether the patch for this issue is accepted or not?
That really is up to one of the MIPS maintainers. As I said in
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-02/msg00159.html the MIPS backend
wants _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ dynamic for some reason.
bh = NULL;
if (! (_bfd_generic_link_add_one_symbol
(info, abfd, "_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_", BSF_GLOBAL, s,
0, NULL, FALSE, get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->collect, &bh)))
return FALSE;
h = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) bh;
h->non_elf = 0;
h->def_regular = 1;
h->type = STT_OBJECT;
elf_hash_table (info)->hgot = h;
if (info->shared
&& ! bfd_elf_link_record_dynamic_symbol (info, h))
return FALSE;
I think that is just plain wrong, but I don't know the history of this
code.
It's been that way since the original revision and that's a long long time
ago. :) I think I noticed it at one point and thought it odd, but I'm not sure
what it was actually for... some oddity on SGI machines that depended
upon a dynamic _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ that only appeared if there
were entries? If there's anything weird the easiest assumption is "SGI
was weird".
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
-eric