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 involved

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-bit

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 does