Re: libqalculate FTBFS on mips* (ball, rem)
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> The "jr" failed because the mips assembler fails to take the segment
> offset of .text into account, which leads to the relevant relocation
> being NULL. The appended diff aginst the modules.h of your testcase
> - removes the additional checks for __mips{el,64}__ because __mips__ is
> generally defined for those configurations.
By whom is it generally defined? Okay, gcc does so, and that code is gcc
specific, so the point is moot. But I'm curious and I remember I've
wondered before.
> - globalizes the jump label for __mips__ as a workaround.
> - Uses a more reliable CL_JUMP_TO version which doesn't depend on
> undocumented compiler behaviour to handle the promotion from a
> memory address to a register suitable for the "r" constraint.
Yepp, works. Thank you very much, indeed!
> The last change may be advisable for all architectures which use a "r"
> constraint.
Thanks, I'll see how it goes.
Regards
-richy.
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