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Re: Huge dynamically linked program does not run on mips-linux


>>>>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:11:18 +0900 (JST), Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> said:
anemo> I have a problem that my huge dynamically linked program cause
anemo> SIGSEGV or SIGBUS immediately after running from main() on
anemo> mips-linux.

anemo> Digging into this problem, I found that GOT entries are
anemo> corrupted.
...
anemo> My program is huge enough so that older binutils causes
anemo> "relocation truncated to fit" error.

More information.  My program's .got size exceeds 64K.  It seems the
corruption does not happen if .got size is smaller then 64K.

$ mips-linux-readelf -e myapp
...
Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type            Addr     Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
...
  [21] .got              PROGBITS        100b15d0 a075d0 013a04 04 WAp  0   0 16

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Atsushi Nemoto


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