>> Apparently the MIPS ABI is just plain broken. It contains some sort of >> impassable hard limit on relocation table size, breaking random packages at >> random times with no possible fix. Nobody can fix this without changing >> the ABI. >
Thiemo Seufer wrote: >That's wrong. OK. Can somebody *describe* the damned bug? Is it a hard limit on GOT size which can't be exceeded (but breaks a predictable collection of packages)? Is it a bug in the way ld constructs the GOT (say, not subdividing it properly into multiple GOTs for 'multigot')? Is it a bug in the way the gcj Makefile *uses* ld, preventing ld from having the right information to construct the GOT? (If it's the latter, I can almost certainly fix it; I'm a configury maintainer upstream for GCC.) Or is it a mystical bug which nobody can actually describe which causes GOT overflow in mysterious cases for mysterious reasons not to be questioned by mortal men? Because that's what it seems like, what with all these vague and meaningless comments I'm hearing. Does anyone actually know what the problem is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
