On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:50:03PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > I don't think mips is the only platform which has this problem. Do > Alpha, PowerPC and Sparc have similar problems like that? What are > the solutions for them? Alpha has a complicated scheme by which every input object file may be assigned to a different GOT, each of which is limited to 64k. The other reason this works is that variables assigned to .sdata/.sbss are _not_ treated differently wrt code generation. Instead, this is optimized via linker relaxation. IA-64 will overflow its small data area at 22 bits. PowerPC and Sparc do not use .sdata/.sbss. r~
