Hi, This patch back ported trunk fix at r205391 to arm/embedded-4_8-branch.
BR, Terry gcc/ChangeLog.arm 2013-11-27 Terry Guo <terry....@arm.com> Backport mainline r205391 2013-11-26 Terry Guo <terry....@arm.com> * config/arm/arm.c (require_pic_register): Handle high pic base register for thumb-1. (arm_load_pic_register): Also initialize high pic base register. * doc/invoke.texi: Update documentation for option -mpic-register. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog.arm 2013-11-27 Terry Guo <terry....@arm.com> Backport mainline r205391 2013-11-26 Terry Guo <terry....@arm.com> * gcc.target/arm/thumb1-pic-high-reg.c: New case. * gcc.target/arm/thumb1-pic-single-base.c: New case.