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Re: Large data sections support
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:22:00AM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> >
> > Putting it in .lbss won't work with common symbol. But the default
> > gp size is 8, "sym->st_size > elf_gp_size (abfd))" means any common
> > symbols bigger than 8 bytes will be put in .lbss automatically by
> > default. I am not sure if it will work very well with the existing
>
> I see, this patch was hanging around longer than it should so I now
> hardly recall details. The treshold for bss/lbss is specified by ABI
> (as different units must match on relocations used to symbols anyway),
> so I planned hardwiring in the proper default for elf_gp_size but my
> last patch simply added -G parameter in ld execution command from gcc
> SPECs.
The issue is that the existing relocatable files may have old
relocations against common symbols larger than 8 bytes, expecting
those symbols will be in .bss sections. Will it still work with your
scheme?
H.J.