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Commit 22069215 authored by Shinya Kuribayashi's avatar Shinya Kuribayashi Committed by Shinya Kuribayashi
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[MIPS] Fix $gp usage


Now we load $gp with _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, but this is incorrect use.
As a general principle, we should use _gp for $gp.

Thanks to linker script's help we fortunately have _gp which equals to
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. But once _gp gets out of alignment, we will not
be able to access to GOT entires, global variables and procedure entry
points. The right thing to do is to use _gp.

This patch also introduce a new symbol `.gpword _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_'
which holds the offset from _gp. When updating GOT entries, we use this
offset and _gp to calculate the final _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.

This patch is originally submitted by Vlad Lungu <vlad@comsys.ro>, then
I made some change to leave over num_got_entries.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi@necel.com>
Cc: Vlad Lungu <vlad@comsys.ro>
parent cbf2323b
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