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Re: Improve MIPS GOT_PAGE estimates
- From: Thiemo Seufer <ths at networkno dot de>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:53:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: Improve MIPS GOT_PAGE estimates
- References: <20080326161336.GA4894@caradoc.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> One of our users reported GOT overflows when linking N64 code which
> used %got_page. We tracked this to the new estimation function;
> it is only called for local or forced-local symbols. That seems OK
> at first, since otherwise %got_page decays to %got_disp for
> overridable symbols - except that in check_relocs, we do not know
> whether a symbol will be ultimately overridable or not.
>
> This patch makes the heuristic a little more conservative. There's
> room for further improvement (combining references to a single global
> symbol from multiple object files), but they offer relatively little
> value for a relatively large amount of work; so I left it at this.
>
> Tested mips-linux, no regressions. OK to commit?
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery
>
> 2008-03-26 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
>
> * elfxx-mips.c (mips_elf_record_got_page_entry): Update comment.
> (_bfd_mips_elf_check_relocs): Update comments. Always call
> mips_elf_record_got_page_entry for R_MIPS_GOT_PAGE.
Ok.
Thiemo