Re: MIPS GOT overflow in gcc 3.2.

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:48:43AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> > AFAIK it happens to mozilla as well.
> 
> On AlphaLinux, we eventually acquired multigot. Many large apps were
> tripping on this problem; many big C++ programs essentially use
> whole-program compilation, and many HPC codes link a bazillion large
> libraries. I don't understand if -fpic or -fPIC are as good of a
> solution as multigot.

FYI, it is -Wa,-xgot, not -fPIC. multigot may be better. But it is not
supported on mips. Until someone adds it, it is not an option.


H.J.