Re: Can objdump show friendly symbolic function name?

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips dot org>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> >  So what was the fuss about when Mozilla (or whatever monstrous program 
> > that was) failed to compile with standard GOT one day then?  Why didn't 
> > they simply build whatever the failing object was with -mxgot and the 
> > multi-GOT scheme was added to binutils instead?  It looks to me like an 
> > overkill solution was chosen, so surely there must have been a reason.
> 
> Everything linked in to the executable has to use -mxgot - or you have
> to be lucky.  The usual problem was that one of crtbegin or crtend
> would have a GOT reference that ended up out of range.  That's all I
> remember, though.

 Well, rebuilding crt* files with -mxgot (with GLIBC there's that 
libc_nonshared.a thing too) still looks to me like much less effort than 
implementing multi-GOT support in binutils. ;)

  Maciej