Re: News MIPS option -mno-shared

[Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>]

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> This patch adds a new option to the MIPS assembler: -mno-shared.
> Normally the .cpload pseudo-op generates code which looks like this:
>
> 	lui	$gp,%hi(_gp_disp)
> 	addiu	$gp,$gp,%lo(_gp_disp)
> 	addu	$gp,$gp,.cpload argument
>
> With -mno-shared, the .cpload pseudo-op will generate code that looks
> like this:
>
> 	lui	$gp,%hi(_gp)
> 	addiu	$gp,$gp,%lo(_gp)
>
> The idea is that you can use -KPIC -mno-shared and get code which
> still uses the usual Unix calling convention, but is slightly more
> efficient at each function entry.

Yeah, this has been on my to-do list for a while ;)  Are you going to
do the same thing for n32 or are you only interested in o32?

FWIW, the patch looks good to me if it's o32 only.

Richard