[U-Boot-Users] _gp in current u-boot.lds for MIPS ports

[Vlad Lungu]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Shinya Kuribayashi,
>
> on IRC you asked:
>   
>> In Current u-boot.lds for MIPS ports, _gp is basically equals to __got_start.
>>     
Is equal to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_  in current tree. Only if you change 
it to
.=ALIGN(16);
gp=.;
it's always equal to __got_start.
>> Is this intentional, or not?
>> If this is intentional for simplification, I'll take into account such original intention.
>>     
It might have been done to simplify the code or shave a few insns, but 
it had the potential to bite us, and  it did exactly that.
 
Cheers,
Vlad