Re: Setting up of GP in static, non-PIC version of glibc?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:16:20PM +0100, Hartvig Ekner wrote:

>         .globl ENTRY_POINT
>         .type ENTRY_POINT,@function
> ENTRY_POINT:
> #ifdef __PIC__
>         SET_GP
> #else
>         la  $28, _gp
> #endif
> 
> Makes things work (this code ends in crt1.o). Is this the right place to 
> fix it?

Non-PIC code doesn't use $gp, so any reference to $gp is a bug.  Note
that we don't support global data optimization for ELF either that is,
-G 0 is the default.

  Ralf