Re: gp

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:01:03PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:

> just playing around with kernel, and wondering what (if any) work has
> been done to use gp within the kernel.  I know it is built with -G 0
> now.
> 
> I looked into it, and made sure that gp got saved and restored correctly
> (I think), but when I compile with -G > 0 gcc (or egcs) gets signal 11 -
> ideas?

In Linux 2.1 / 2.2 we have an other use of the gp; it contains the
current variable.  See include/asm-mips/current.h.  It's been on my to do
list for a long time to check if -G > 0 will be a better use of $28 than
putting the current variable there.

  Ralf