Java broken after i386 PIC change

Sun Jan 21 14:35:00 GMT 2001

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:35:05PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> So it seems likely that there's some linkonce bug in 2.10 that
> has been fixed since. I wonder how hard it would be to detect
> it at configure time. Otherwise I've got to figure out some
> other solution to the original bug.

I've applied the following until I can figure out what
to do about detecting this at configure time.
r~
 * config/i386/i386.c (ix86_asm_file_end): Disable putting 
 pic_label_name in a linkonce section.
Index: i386.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/egcs/gcc/config/i386/i386.c,v
retrieving revision 1.206
diff -c -p -d -r1.206 i386.c
*** i386.c	2001年01月16日 15:57:00	1.206
--- i386.c	2001年01月21日 22:31:24
*************** Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
*** 40,45 ****
--- 40,46 ----
 #include "expr.h"
 #include "toplev.h"
 #include "basic-block.h"
+ #include "defaults.h"
 #include "ggc.h"

 #ifndef CHECK_STACK_LIMIT
*************** ix86_asm_file_end (file)
*** 1703,1709 ****
 if (! TARGET_DEEP_BRANCH_PREDICTION || pic_label_name[0] == 0)
 return;

! #ifdef ASM_OUTPUT_SECTION_NAME
 /* The trick here is to create a linkonce section containing the
 pic label thunk, but to refer to it with an internal label.
 Because the label is internal, we don't have inter-dso name
--- 1704,1713 ----
 if (! TARGET_DEEP_BRANCH_PREDICTION || pic_label_name[0] == 0)
 return;

! /* ??? Binutils 2.10 and earlier has a linkonce elimination bug related
! to updating relocations to a section being discarded such that this
! doesn't work. Ought to detect this at configure time. */
! #if 0 && defined (ASM_OUTPUT_SECTION_NAME)
 /* The trick here is to create a linkonce section containing the
 pic label thunk, but to refer to it with an internal label.
 Because the label is internal, we don't have inter-dso name