GOT and FIXUP data in the PowerPC Multilibs

Ralf Corsepius ralf.corsepius at rtems.org
Tue Sep 16 06:46:30 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 09:34 -0700, Till Straumann wrote:
> IMO there shouldn't be any got nor fixup. They
> are produced due to -mrelocatable-lib (which IMO
> should not be present) in MULTILIB_EXTRA_OPTS (gcc's t-rtems).
These are present by public requests from RTEMS users to add them.

I never understood these and the desire of many powerpc BSPs to use
further obscure compilation flags.

> (Another curiosity is that the same options add -mno-eabi
> but the powerpc-rtems configuration (config.gcc) adds
> eabi.h to the tm_files which adds -meabi in the first place.)

Cf. http://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195

Though this PR claims to be fixed, it has never been really resolved.




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