From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle To: Mark Mitchell Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: R_MIPS_GOT16 bug Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:52:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990816004832.B12409@uni-koblenz.de> References: <19990806170650.A1366@uni-koblenz.de> <19990806124535D.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <19990816000504.A12356@uni-koblenz.de> <19990815155022C.mitchell@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-08/msg00088.html On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 03:50:22PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Baechle 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