Re: linker problem: relocation truncated to fit

[Erik Corry <erik@arbat.com>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:50:03PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think -G is the problem here.  The problem is that the GOT
> > needs to be bigger than a 16 bit value.  The only way to do this is to
> > recompile everything that is going to be linked in statically
> > (libc_noshared.a and libgcc.a included) with -Wa,-xgot This problem
> > currently affects openh323 and mozilla, among other things.

I think the current favoured solution on IRIX is multigot, where
if I understand correctly you switch GOT on some function calls 
in order to have multiple GOTs in one .o (or .so).

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Erik Corry erik@arbat.com