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

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
[snip]
> > > 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
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't this a known problem in binutils?  IIRC, someone is working or has
> > added "--big-got" support.
> 
> Atsushi-san's program would not even link with a binutils that didn't
> support multiple GOTs; I guess that something is going wrong with that
> support.

When building python-qt3 on debian unstable I get an oversize GOT and:

/usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.14.90.0.6 20030820 Debian GNU/Linux assertion fail 
../../bfd/elfxx-mips.c:2287

Seems like multi-GOT is broken for this case.


Thiemo