#14895: enable gp-rel in kernels #15043
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Ticket
#14895
Problem description
The compiler does not know that extern global variables are placed near each other, and thus generates each address separately. This can be aleviated by enabling GP-relative addressing in kernels (it is already enabled in firmware)
What's changed
__global_pointer$
from the firmware's linker script. Do not recompute it in the kernel.__global_pointer$
from the kernel's startup -- this is sufficient to tell the linker to do the relaxation we want.tmu-crt0k
.Of the 4 kernels I looked at, this reduced the text size between 4 and 10% -- in particular the issue's assembly becomes:
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