Changes to PPC Linux required for GCC 3.1

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:50:38PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> >I think the reason this wasn't applied is that Paul said something about
> >thiws being horriyingly ugly.  Corey, can you post a patch that changes
> >RELOC(x) into a function and nothing else? :)
>
> I prefer this beeing resolved at compile time. The reason Paul didn't want
> it at first is because he didn't want a workaround for a pre-release gcc
> bug. Since this is becoming a "feature", it makes sense to get the
> workaround. Paulus will confirm or not what I'm saying though...

This was actually being hit by a 3.0.x release at the time I think (and
we worked around it another way).  I'd prefer a clean function over an
ugly macro any day :)

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