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Re: MIPS multi-got link support

On Jan 27, 2003, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> There is already a unique section id. Is that possible to use it?

I don't immediately see that it would be safe to rely on it.

> If you have to bfd id, can you check overflow?

Overflow of what, the id counter?  Geez, 2^32 bfds sounds a bit
excessive to me.  Let's just make it long, and then You'd certainly
run out of virtual memory before it wrapped.

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