Hello, On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Interesting. I thought gcc doesn't have problems here yet and was > talking to Matz on Thu about it and it seems he's forgotten about his > statement too that "you should simply stop using -mcmodel=large. Noone > should use it." :-) It may be so ingrained in my brain that I'm not _always_ saying it when talking about the large code model over a beer. And indeed I know of no particular problems with it vis GCC, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to use :-) So once again: "everyone should simply stop using -mcmodel=large. Noone should use it." So the patch goes strictly into the direction of betterment of the universe. :) Ciao, Michael.