From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Greg Lindahl <lindahl@keyresearch.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: MIPS GOT overflow in gcc 3.2.
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:55:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020702115525.A16419@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020702114843.B1896@wumpus.internal.keyresearch.com>; from lindahl@keyresearch.com on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:48:43AM -0700
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:48:43AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> > AFAIK it happens to mozilla as well.
>
> On AlphaLinux, we eventually acquired multigot. Many large apps were
> tripping on this problem; many big C++ programs essentially use
> whole-program compilation, and many HPC codes link a bazillion large
> libraries. I don't understand if -fpic or -fPIC are as good of a
> solution as multigot.
FYI, it is -Wa,-xgot, not -fPIC. multigot may be better. But it is not
supported on mips. Until someone adds it, it is not an option.
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-02 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020701184640.A2043@lucon.org>
2002-07-02 2:07 ` MIPS GOT overflow in gcc 3.2 Eric Christopher
2002-07-02 3:09 ` Eric Christopher
2002-07-02 6:58 ` H. J. Lu
2002-07-02 18:48 ` Greg Lindahl
2002-07-02 18:55 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2002-07-02 18:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-03 16:35 ` RFC: Use -Wa,-xgot for Linux/mips (Re: MIPS GOT overflow in gcc 3.2.) H. J. Lu
2002-07-03 16:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-03 16:50 ` H. J. Lu
2002-07-03 23:02 ` Ralf Baechle
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