Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1991May23.082658.4881 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

| In article <225 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
| >You poor boy, such an old trick is already known to me. I sometimes use
| >the trick if it is possible.
| >The problem here is that "jal" is not PC-relative.
| 
| *sigh*
| Fine.  How about:
| 
| 	mov	1, $at
| 	bgezal	$at, foo1$
| 	nop
| foo1$:
| 	mov	$r31, $at

Well actually, the move of 1 to $at is unnessary, since you already
have 0 in $0, and the test is >= 0.

	
	.set	noreorder
	.set	noat
	bgezal	$0, foo1$
	nop
foo1$:
	mov	$r31, $at
	.set	at
	.set	reorder

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Michael Meissner	email: meissner at osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
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