Hi Alan, On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 08:49:44AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 05:36:08PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 05:06:57PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > > > Generate assembly that is .localentry 1 with @notoc calls to match. > > > > What is the purpose of this? Non-obvious patchexs without any > > explanation like that cost needless extra time to review :-/ > > > > "Support __PCREL__ code." suggests that it did not even build before? > > Or did not work? Or is this just a perfomance improvement? > > Sorry, I sometimes credit you with super-human powers. It's a > performance improvement for libgcc.a. Calling between functions that > advertise as using the TOC and those that don't, will require linker > call stubs.
Thanks for the explanation! Segher
