On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:48:43AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > AFAIK it happens to mozilla as well. > > On AlphaLinux, we eventually acquired multigot. Many large apps were > tripping on this problem; many big C++ programs essentially use > whole-program compilation, and many HPC codes link a bazillion large > libraries. I don't understand if -fpic or -fPIC are as good of a > solution as multigot. FYI, it is -Wa,-xgot, not -fPIC. multigot may be better. But it is not supported on mips. Until someone adds it, it is not an option. H.J.
