Re: MIPS symbol versioning patches

[Ulf Carlsson <ulfc@calypso.engr.sgi.com>]

 > > Yes, it's just a matter of recompiling everything against it.  Keith
 > > Wesolowski is doing this.  We have found some minor problems with
 > > glibc that we haven't been able to resolve yet.  There is some bug in
 > > the dynamic linker, it tries to resolve symbols that aren't there in
 > > some packages.
 > > 
 > > There is also a problem with compiling gcc 2.96 natively, but I
 > > actually think that's a problem in gcc 2.96.  It shouldn't try to
 > > generate jump instructions like it does that in PIC code.
 > 
 > What jump instructions?  jal goes ok, the assembler knows how expand
 > them correctly for PIC code.

It uses j to perform branches that are out of range.  I think gcc
expects the assembler to translate it into a GOT16/LO16 thing if it's
out of range.

Ulf