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From: Erik Corry <erik@arbat.com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: Ryan Murray <rmurray@cyberhqz.com>,
	linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: linker problem: relocation truncated to fit
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:08:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010926120831.A22219@arbat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010916155003.B1446@lucon.org>; from hjl@lucon.org on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:50:03PM -0700

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:50:03PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think -G is the problem here.  The problem is that the GOT
> > needs to be bigger than a 16 bit value.  The only way to do this is to
> > recompile everything that is going to be linked in statically
> > (libc_noshared.a and libgcc.a included) with -Wa,-xgot This problem
> > currently affects openh323 and mozilla, among other things.

I think the current favoured solution on IRIX is multigot, where
if I understand correctly you switch GOT on some function calls 
in order to have multiple GOTs in one .o (or .so).

-- 
Erik Corry erik@arbat.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-26 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-16 12:17 linker problem: relocation truncated to fit Petter Reinholdtsen
2001-09-16 16:16 ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-16 16:29   ` Wilbern Cobb
2001-09-16 16:29     ` Wilbern Cobb
2001-09-16 22:07     ` Petter Reinholdtsen
2001-09-16 22:38       ` Ryan Murray
2001-09-16 22:50         ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-17  1:55           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-09-17 22:40             ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-17 22:53               ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-17 22:56                 ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-17 23:06                   ` H . J . Lu
2001-09-17 23:01                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-09-17 22:47           ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-17 22:56             ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-09-20 22:52             ` Geoff Keating
2001-09-26 10:08           ` Erik Corry [this message]
2001-09-16 22:50       ` Wilbern Cobb
2001-09-16 22:50         ` Wilbern Cobb
2001-09-17  1:50     ` Ralf Baechle

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