RFH/RFC: symbol index overflow in MIPS linker stubs...

[David Daney]

Richard Sandiford wrote:
> David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> writes:
> 
>>There are three ways to do this:
>>
>>1) Always use a 20 byte stub.  This allows for up to 2^31 - 1 dynamic 
>>symbols.  You are concerned that this would break IRIX tools.
> 
> 
> Well, "would"'s a bit a too strong.  It's only a vague "might".
> It's o32 I'm particularly worried about: the o32 IRIX tools
> are a bit weird.
> 
> That wouldn't be much of an argument if it wasn't fairly easy
> to do #2 or #3, of course, but it does look fairly easy.
> 

My main concern is that in _bfd_mips_elf_adjust_dynamic_symbol I need to 
know the size of the stub, but I am uncertain if we will know the number 
of dynamic symbols at this point so that we can choose the proper stub size.

David Daney