Ping Re: Patch for MIPS multi-got bug with forced-local symbols
Richard Sandiford
rsandifo@nildram.co.uk
Tue Oct 9 20:38:00 GMT 2007
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> I see two solutions. One is to avoid setting got.offset for forced
> local symbols, and set it back to MINUS_ONE when hiding symbols.
> The other is to set got.offset but still not put such symbols in the
> global GOT when the time comes.
>
> The second is easier, since we use got.offset != MINUS_ONE in
> mips_elf_record_global_got_symbol to detect symbols with already
> allocated GOT entries. This patch implements that. It fixes
> Joseph's two new testcases, which should be committed along
> with it. I'm going to start more intensive testing now.
>
> Anyone have comments on this patch?
FWIW, it looks good to me. I think the second solution is indeed how
things are supposed to work at the moment, and if we're going to change
the datastructures, a bigger overhaul than the first option might be
useful...
Richard
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