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Re: [PATCH] MIPS gas: More flexible $gp handling

Thiemo,

> Uh, it would seem that should be "mostly updated."
> 
> Current binutils fails to compile:
> 

Can you get this tonight or revert your patch? I'd like to avoid
breakages.

Also, can you please build and test on mips-elf and mips64-elf with the
changes that you wish to make before submitting? Thanks.


Chris,

> Also, what's the rationale for using GP vs. mips_gp_register?  E.g.,
> there's a lot of code conditional on SVR4_PIC which uses GP rather
> than mips_gp_register...  but there are at least some SVR4_PIC places
> (line 5744, 5795, ...) which do use mips_gp_register...

His patch should have gotten them all. I believe it was more of an
aesthetic choice.

-eric

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