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Re: PATCH for i386: --no-copy-relocs

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Subject: Re: PATCH for i386: --no-copy-relocs
From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:25:14 -0700
References: <002101c0f82c$935bf2a0$18671ed4@fr.mainsoft.com> <20010619233358.G27171@bubble.local> <sizob4nqia.fsf@daffy.airs.com> <20010620093554.C16699@bubble.local>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:35:54AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> As a side note, doing this does not provide any benefit at run-time for
> data accesses, besides reducing dynamic loader time;  Data accesses still
> go through the .got.

They wouldn't necessarily need to though.  You could implement
a form of relaxation on x86 that transformed

	movl    foo@GOT(%ebx), %edx
into
	leal    foo@GOTOFF(%ebx), %edx

which is convenient in that the instructions are the same size.

r~

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