Re: nature of GOT bugs (was Re: Please reenable GCJ on mips

2005-10-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> > * or a bug in ld.so -- inability to handle correctly specified multiple GOTs > > for more than 16k global symbols Thiemo wrote: > > That (it shouldn't segfault), and/or potentially also a bug in ld which > leads to failure for large MultiGOT binaries. Rocking. It looks like most people inv

Re: nature of GOT bugs (was Re: Please reenable GCJ on mips

2005-10-08 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Thanks *very much* for your help explaining this mess. > > Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > - A too large object file can overflow plain GOT. This is not only > > MIPS-specific, it affects several architecture's toolchains, > Right, it would affect any architecture which do

nature of GOT bugs (was Re: Please reenable GCJ on mips

2005-10-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thanks *very much* for your help explaining this mess. Thiemo Seufer wrote: > - A too large object file can overflow plain GOT. This is not only > MIPS-specific, it affects several architecture's toolchains, Right, it would affect any architecture which does silly things like having a 16-bi