From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30419 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2006 08:22:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 30404 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Mar 2006 08:22:41 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ns2.suse.de (HELO mx2.suse.de) (195.135.220.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:22:39 +0000 Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6901C591; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:22:35 +0100 (CET) From: Andreas Jaeger To: Michael Matz Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Jan Hubicka , Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: [x86-64] Large model relocation References: OpenPGP: id=C272A126; url=http://www.suse.de/~aj/keys.txt Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Michael Matz's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:45:48 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1337 Michael Matz 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=20 > more than 2GB away, and as long as .text is between it and .got it can't= =20 > be larger than the 2GB, which is the whole point of the large model. I'l= l=20 > post that as follow up after the heat about this one (should it rise up)= =20 > colds down :-) Thanks, the patch looks fine, I have applied it after building and testing binutils with it, Andreas --=20 Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint =3D 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 188 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEIlrLOJpWPMJyoSYRAtbyAJ4yyf3aTFC+9068RsOUIYrWHElpYgCfeJdI 5IehwkgKX7GkR9QfAOvVcvY= =HitP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--