Re: RFH/RFC: symbol index overflow in MIPS linker stubs...

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:03:30PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:27:59PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would favour a two instruction sequence, applications will continue to
> > > > grow. There might be some compatibility traps, but at a superficial
> > > > glance I haven't found an obvious blocker.
> > >
> > > If we can change the stub sequence without ABI problems, why waste an
> > > instruction?  Support both.
> >
> > Will the stub section support varying entry sizes? I'm not sure.
>
>
> This is solveable, as a simple matter of programming, or ignorable,
> by padding the shorter entries with a trailing nop.

I think the best option is to unconditionally increase the stub size by 
4 bytes.  The value of MIPS_FUNCTION_STUB_SIZE is used in quite a few 
places in elfxx-mips.c, so it seems a bit risky to change it for 
variable size stubs.

I am working on a patch now.

David Daney.