On 10/05/2010 02:40 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > Especially one that doesn't require each function > to calculate the GOT address in the function prologue(why is that so?)
Because PIC code can be called from non-PIC code and because the non-PIC code does not load the GOT address. Avoiding re-computation of the PIC register is something that could be done via LTO and/or cgraph optimizations. To my knowledge, no one is working on that at present. r~
