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 15:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990816004832.B12409@uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990815155022C.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 03:50:22PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
>
> Ralf> It now has become an issue of correctness as well. Even a
> Ralf> relativly small program like vim when configured with perl,
> Ralf> python and X support reaches the size where we run out of
> Ralf> GOT space.
>
> I'm a little bit confused. I wouldn't have thought things were
> *worse* than they were before. Are they? If so, I'll have to look at
> the old code and see what was working differently.
It's worse, the size of the .got for perl(1) has increased by a factor
of two; for other non-trivial binaries I've observed a factor of four.
Some pathological cases are even worse.
Ralf
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1999-08-15 15:31 ` Ralf Baechle
1999-08-15 15:46 ` Mark Mitchell
1999-08-15 15:52 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
1999-08-15 15:59 ` Mark Mitchell
1999-08-04 19:14 Ralf Baechle
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