On resolving the MIPS gas branch reloc issue

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar  9, 2003, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> I guess you are talking about mips*-linux, not mips*-irix.

Yup.  mips64-linux, specifically.

> Can you send me some testcases for these?

Build glibc for n32 or n64, using the patch for glibc 2.3.1 I posted
to the glibc mailing list a while back.  Not even ld.so works.  I
haven't gone as far as creating a small testcase for it, but I
remember it did trigger the conditions I listed.

>> Perhaps we should just go with branches to symbols in the same
>> sections for now?  Do you still have patch that you send me the other
>> day to that effect handy?  Perhaps you could propose it here as well?

> IMHO it's better to keep the current version and fix NewABI.
> I'll propose the other patch only as a last resort thing.

Understood.  Well, I can only wish you good luck and hope you succeed
where I failed.  I wasted only 1 or 2 days on this, so perhaps being
smarter and/or having more time, you can succeed.  I hope the pointers
to the locations where I remember having found problems help.

Still, if you could post the patch here, I'm sure it could help those
who want just a stop-gap solution for branches to global symbols
within the same section, while the full-fledged solution is still
being worked on.

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