From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: R_MIPS_GOT16 bug
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990816000504.A12356@uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990806124535D.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:45:35PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Ralf> Btw, the got in the executable seems to be quite bloated by
> Ralf> alot of apparently unused entries. My test case #10 has two
> Ralf> reserved entries, two used ones and 13 unused ones. The
> Ralf> ranlib binary which I've just dissected seems to have just
> Ralf> 14 used ones but in total 3737 allocated local got entries,
> Ralf> that's almost 15kb wasted.
>
> Yup. That's a harder problem to fix; it requires asembling the GOT in
> a rather more clever way. It would be nice to do, though! Let's
> tackle correctness first; then we can get to this.
It now has become an issue of correctness as well. Even a relativly small
program like vim when configured with perl, python and X support reaches
the size where we run out of GOT space.
As you say it looks non-trivial; is this on your agenda for the next time?
Ralf
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1999-08-15 15:31 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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1999-08-15 15:59 ` Mark Mitchell
1999-08-04 19:14 Ralf Baechle
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