On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 04:23:31PM -0800, Charles M. Hannum 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.

Indeed -- it sounds a lot like the i386 PIC model, too.

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