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Re: [PATCH][m68k] Support generation of multiple GOTs
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:15:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][m68k] Support generation of multiple GOTs
- References: <47EBC961.1050105@codesourcery.com> <jeabkkgkkt.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <4807634E.8040907@codesourcery.com> <je7ic860rb.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <jeskuw4cw7.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <4868BB97.8060405@codesourcery.com>
Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim@codesourcery.com> writes:
> Hm, I didn't know that m68k uses 'lea' for GOT pointer
> initialization.
You can always put an arbitrary addend in the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
reference. For example, the following sequence would just as valid as
the one generated by gcc:
move.l #_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_@GOTPC-6, %a5
lea (%pc, %a5), %a5
Andreas.
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