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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:50:03 -0700
From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com,
   GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: RFC: Use -Wa,-xgot for Linux/mips (Re: MIPS GOT overflow in gcc 3.2.)
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:40:39PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:35:18AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:09:59PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
> > > 
> > > > AFAIK it happens to mozilla as well.
> > > > 
> > > > Guh.
> > > 
> > > There are a few different possible solutions, one is to do the
> > > -fPIC/-fpic split, another is to copy to SGI multigot, I'm sure there
> > > are other solutions as well...
> > > 
> > 
> > I am enclosing a kludge here. With that, I got
> > 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2002-07/msg00062.html
> > 
> > Any comments?
> 
> Did you see my message about mixing GOT models?  I'd need Ralf or Eric to

A testcase?


H.J.