[Bug ld/12669] Suspected bug in calculation of gp-relative offsets for ia64 target

[jakub at jermar dot eu]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12669

--- Comment #3 from Jakub Jermar <jakub at jermar dot eu> 2011-04-13 14:16:02 
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(In reply to comment #2)
> Note that the linker does not always put gp at the start of the .got section. 
> If you want to force a particular gp value you need to define the symbol 
> __gp. 
> Otherwise use this symbol to find the actually chosen gp value.  You should
> also keep .got, .sdata and .sbss close together.

Interestingly, defining and using __gp instead of _gp seems to fix the problem
for us. Thanks! Btw, is this documented somewhere?

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