[fpc-devel] Re: Bug in revision 9781/2

[Peter Vreman]

>To access global variables in a PIC environment you need to get the 
>value of the program counter. "call" puts the value on the stack and 
>jumps to the label. You don't want to jump, just push the program 
>counter, so you declare a label immedeately after the call instruction.
>
>The "pop ebx" after it retrieves the pushed program counter from the 
>stack again in ebx. So this code is correct. The reason why it 
>didn't compile was case sensitivity of the ATT assembler reader, 
>which Jonas did correct.
>
>Jonas did disable it on Darwin as it apparently still did not work 
>for him. It has to be the Darwin PIC code, allthough to the eye it 
>seems correct to me.

This call and pop is old-style PIC and not good for new cpus because 
it breaks the call-stack. Please use the new style that calls a 
function (fpc_geteipasebx). This also generated by the compiler. See 
i386/cgcpu.pas and search for g_maybe_got_init.


Peter