Millicode calls, GP register, ld -r

[David Huggins-Daines]

"John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> writes:

> The HP linker `-O' option eliminates unnecessary ADDIL instructions

Yes, currently our code generation is absolute crap, because we are
using ADDIL+LDO sequences for absolutely every DP or DLT
relative/indirect access.

Other BFD and GCC targets have optimizations to use 'short' data, bss,
got, and sometimes plt sections when possible.  Long term I would
really like to implement this for hppa-linux.

I'm not at all sure how this is done though - can anyone point me to
some code or documentation that explains it?

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