[PATCH] D31528: [ELF][MIPS] Multi-GOT implementation

Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Apr 20 05:36:30 PDT 2017


On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 04:49:45PM -0700, Sean Silva via llvm-commits wrote:
> Limited range for immediates is true for most RISC architectures. Why is
> MIPS so special here? What do other arches do?

Actually, it isn't that special. Multi-TOC for example is needed on PPC
for a couple of larger things too. There is a good reason why "-fpic"
and "-fPIC" are different flags...

Joerg


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