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

[Hartvig Ekner <hartvige@mips.com>]

Ralf Baechle writes:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:31:41PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > BTW: Who is "we"? Do you mean global data optimization is broken
> > in gcc/binutils or just that no one at SGI is using it?
> 
> It's an ECOFF specific optimization that just has been forward ported into
> the ELF world.  And what does this have to do with SGI anyway?

I still don't get it. Why would one not use GP optimization with non-shared
non-PIC code? It certainly is used throughout in the non-Linux MIPS world,
and on the limited testing I did today it also worked fine. Is there 
something which is known not to work, or some conflict somewhere which
prevents the general use of GP?

/Hartvig