Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 diff -durN gcc-3.4.6.orig/gcc/config/sh/sh.c gcc-3.4.6/gcc/config/sh/sh.c
2 --- gcc-3.4.6.orig/gcc/config/sh/sh.c 2004-09-03 08:51:30.000000000 +0200
3 +++ gcc-3.4.6/gcc/config/sh/sh.c 2007-08-15 23:01:48.000000000 +0200
6 this = FUNCTION_ARG (cum, Pmode, ptr_type_node, 1);
8 + /* In PIC case, we set PIC register to compute the target address. We
9 + can use a scratch register to save and restore the original value
10 + except for SHcompact. For SHcompact, use stack. */
11 + if (flag_pic && TARGET_SHCOMPACT)
13 + push (PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM);
14 + emit_insn (gen_GOTaddr2picreg ());
17 /* For SHcompact, we only have r0 for a scratch register: r1 is the
18 static chain pointer (even if you can't have nested virtual functions
19 right now, someone might implement them sometime), and the rest of the
20 @@ -9189,8 +9198,24 @@
21 assemble_external (function);
22 TREE_USED (function) = 1;
24 + /* We can use scratch1 to save and restore the original value of
25 + PIC register except for SHcompact. */
26 + if (flag_pic && ! TARGET_SHCOMPACT)
28 + emit_move_insn (scratch1,
29 + gen_rtx_REG (Pmode, PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM));
30 + emit_insn (gen_GOTaddr2picreg ());
32 funexp = XEXP (DECL_RTL (function), 0);
33 emit_move_insn (scratch2, funexp);
36 + if (! TARGET_SHCOMPACT)
37 + emit_move_insn (gen_rtx_REG (Pmode, PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM),
40 + pop (PIC_OFFSET_TABLE_REGNUM);
42 funexp = gen_rtx_MEM (FUNCTION_MODE, scratch2);
43 sibcall = emit_call_insn (gen_sibcall (funexp, const0_rtx, NULL_RTX));
44 SIBLING_CALL_P (sibcall) = 1;