[PATCH] Modify MIPS long branch for NaCl

Sasa Stankovic Sasa.Stankovic at imgtec.com
Wed May 28 13:23:33 PDT 2014


MIPS traditionally used PIC relocation model, to be able to use shared libraries. PLT support (which enables non-PIC code to use shared libraries) was added to MIPS only recently, in 2008. I suppose at that time GCC switched to using non-PIC as default. I don't know why LLVM still uses PIC.

Regards,
Sasa

http://reviews.llvm.org/D3928






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