[parisc-linux] where to put 64 bit libmilli?

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> Moving it out of libgcc may or may not make sense.  If I recall the key thing
> to remember is that you want copies of those routines in each shared library,
> otherwise you can lose in unpleasant ways.  An alternative is to make the
> millicode routines themselves into a shared library and everyone links against.

The real reason that we currently need separate millicode routines for
each shared lib is that linkage to millicode functions is different than
for normal functions.  In particular, you don't want to load r19 (32 bit
case) or r27 (64 bit case) when calling millicode.  Therefore, a shared
millicode lib would require special .plt entries.  Not too hard to do,
just a bit messy.

Alan
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