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Re: linker problem: relocation truncated to fit
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:15:16PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:02:35AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:32:33PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > > The next step would be to try and reorder relocations so that the
> > > -fpic stuff is nearer the GOT. Then the -fPIC stuff can overflow
> > > without harming the -fpic part.
> > > Of course, I haven't checked the gnu linker recently. Maybe it already
> > > implements that ?
> Nope, but it wouldn't be hard to add it if people think this is common
> situation. It would probably require sparc elf_link_hash_table to keep track
> on how many got entries are of which type, got.offset resp.
> local_got_offsets could be assigned e.g. values | 2 for
> GOT{10,22} relocs and they'd be translated once got was finalized.
This could be fairly useful. For instance, you may wish to have a very common
part of a library compiled with -fpic, and the rest with -fPIC.