On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:27:11AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > The right way to solve it would be to implement GOT reference > counting in MIPS binutils. Hope that helps :-)
That would help, but really big programs can still blow out a single GOT. For example, on the Alpha before multi-GOT, we couldn't link Legion's libraries properly. Legion is a huge C++ program with extensively templating. With g++, the preferred way to make the smallest possible library (no duplicate template expansions) was to cat together all the source files and have g++ chew its way through it all at once. Applixware had the same problem, same reason. So saying that emacs won't blow out a single GOT isn't the end of the story: some people want to compile their own codes, and they can be really big. -- greg
