http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21738
--- Comment #2 from Jonathan Larmour <jifl-bugzilla at jifvik dot org> 2011-04-11 19:59:07 UTC --- I had forgotten I had submitted this :-). Some work has been done by Richard Sandiford to address this, and there is now a -mno-extern-sdata option. I think this bug now can be about actually deploying this option where relevant in config/mips/t-* Presumably by adding something like: MULTILIB_EXTRA_OPTS = G9999 mno-extern-sdata in the relevant t-* files. But it might be good if someone could confirm. Jifl