Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: Matt Fredette <fredette@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2002 16:46:23
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Matt Fredette wrote:

> A few months ago I fooled around with adding 68000 ELF PIC support to gcc
> and binutils.  I think I finished, but never got around to testing it -
> I was sorta only interested in seeing if it could be put together at all.
>
> I guess I could try to finish it up, but one thing that always discouraged
> me about 68000 PIC is the limited process address space: only 16MB total.

???

Is that due to the ABI or what?

[I think this is Motorola ASM syntax]

	MOVE	#$12345678, d0
	LEA	(0, PC, D0), a0

will give you a 32-bit offset relative to the PC, won't it?

Take care,

Bill