On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 11:56:34PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Another binutils status report - as of now I still have two open bugs:
>
> - ld doesn't fill the .got entries for non-dynamic binaries.
> - binutils-current are so extremly wastefull with .got space that we run
> out of got space for building relativly simple programs like vim.
> There is a workaround for this problem which is using compiling things
> with the -Wa,-xgot option. Not really a good idea because it requires
> recompilation of several packages with that option but at least it
> works ...
Add another bug - binutils 2.8.1 had a bug which was compensated by
another bug in ld.so. So if we fix either one we break binary
compatibility.
Grrr,
Ralf
