Re: GCC 4.4.2(mips) with -mplt option

[YD <ydgoo9@gmail.com>]

I saw the toolchain for MIPS from broadcom(GCC-4.2.0, uClibc-0.9.29)
does support -mplt option.

I assumed they patched some code for uClibc and GCC also.

I hope I could find some patch like it. but I did not find yet.


On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 19:27 Fri 29 Jan     , YD wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have built the toolchain using the buildroot ( GCC 4.4.2 with
>> uClibc-0.9.30.1 )
>
> I think you need to check if uClibc supports this feature.
> -mplt need support from libc, specifically dynamic loader, ld.so.
>
>>
>> Everything works well but when I compiled with -mplt option, always it
>> fails with Segmentation fault.
>>
>> I read some articles that with -mplt option, preformance will be 10%
>> highter than without plt option.
>>
>> I don't know why this fails everytime. please help me...
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> int main()
>> {
>>  printf("Hello world \n"); return 0;
>> }
>>
>> #mipsel-linux-gcc  -o a a.c
>>  Hello world
>> #mipsel-linux-gcc -mplt -o a a.c
>>  Segmentation fault
>> #mipsel-linux-gcc -mplt -no-shared -o a a.c
>>  Segmentation fault
>> #mipsel-linux-gcc -mplt -no-shared -mabicalls -o a a.c
>>  Segmentation fault
>
> And -no-shared is actually not needed
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-12/msg00010.html
>
> You should be able to verify this by 'mipsel-linux-gcc -v'
>
> Zhang, Le
>