On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:17:17AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> the ATPCS PIC model is quite significantly different from our own, and I'm 
> not sure we want to use it.  It does have the advantage that it extends to 
> running code out of ROM, but that isn't a major issue for us.  The major 
> cost of ATPCS pic model is that it locks down a register at all times if 
> shared libraries might be available, since the PIC base register must 
> always point to a PIC table, even in non-pic code (so that we can look up 
> a new pic table when we move to a new shared lib).

Could you explain this more?  From your brief statement, it actually
sounds like this is exactly where I want to go.