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From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Bug#539378: [hppa]: fails to load nfs module: Global Offset Table
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:09:47 +0200
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Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>, elendil@planet.nl,
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To: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
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On 07/31/2009 09:03 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
>> Only 32-bit targets have the 14-bit signed immediate offset (0x3fff),
>> which becomes a 13-bit limit when loading positive offsets e.g.
>> +0x1fff or 1023 GOT slots.
>
> Can't we offset the table and double the number of entries?

Dave,
Can you explain this idea a little more?
Helge