From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>,
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Subject: Re: [x86-64] Large model relocation
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ho8xr17epg.fsf@reger.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0603201834190.12554@wotan.suse.de> (Michael Matz's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:45:48 +0100 (CET)")
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Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> this patch adds the necessary support for the five new relocations for the
> large model. I've tested it on i386 and x86-64; it builds and doesn't
> cause breakage in the testsuite for both. Additionally we use this patch
> (or better a slightly adjusted version) since quite some time internally,
> so I know that it also builds several 1000 packages.
>
> Full large model support also would need a change in elf.sc moving the
> .plt after .text (so that .plt and .got have a chance to be nearer than
> 2GB). This is because I didn't bother to actually implement the new .plt
> layout which would be necessary for more than an abysmal number of
> exported symbols (102261124 to be exact). So the .plt code can't reach
> more than 2GB away, and as long as .text is between it and .got it can't
> be larger than the 2GB, which is the whole point of the large model. I'll
> post that as follow up after the heat about this one (should it rise up)
> colds down :-)
Thanks, the patch looks fine, I have applied it after building and
testing binutils with it,
Andreas
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2006-03-20 18:36 Michael Matz
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