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Re: PR5900

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:54:39 +1030
Subject: Re: PR5900
References: <20080312083240.GC19543@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20080312132022.GA9993@lucon.org>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:20:22AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> Will the above work when number of sections >= (unsigned int) -0x100u?

Various fields in external ELF structs limit the number of sections to
4G, even when using 64-bit ELF.  eg. sh_link and sh_info, est_shndx.
I'm not in the least bit worried that this code only supports 4G-256
sections rather than 4G.

Perhaps you'd like to assemble a testcase with 2G sections to see if
we cope with even that many?  I suspect it might take quite a while to
assemble and link...

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

References:
- PR5900
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: PR5900
  - From: H.J. Lu

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