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Re: HI16 / LO16 relocations.
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:42:36PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> As soon as you get a test-case, I'll take a look at this. It's fine
> even it's big, as long as you can point at the exact place that goes
> wrong; I'd really like to get this work behind me, and get everything
> back to a more stable state. 've compiled *millions* of lines of code
> on IRIX6 with the new linker without a problem; obviously the
> relocation patterns are very different from the N32/N64 ABI to the
> older ABIs.
I think the core differences are probably that I tried to compile non-pic
code and code which tries to use GNU extensions. I intend to recompile
the entire Linux distribution with this new linker which probably will
trigger a few more bugs according to my past experience. Finally the
Linux/MIPS64 kernel will exercise non-PIC 64-bit code - hopefully
without triggering any new bugs ...
Ralf