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Re: Why -mxgot on MIPS and not -fpic/-fPIC?

* Maciej W. Rozycki:

>> Or group multiple related variables in a struct.  There are likely
>> quite a few ways GHC could generate code leading to improved
>> relocations because the DSOs it builds do not have a stable ABI
>> anyway.  But I bet it's not on the GHC developers' radar screen today
>> because other platforms have less stringent limits (but would benefit
>> from the RSS reduction as well).
>
>  I take it they don't support multi-GOT then, right?

GHC is used in a mode which generates C code, which is then compiled
using GCC.  (This is why Debian could apply the -mxgot workaround so
quicky.)

>> You'll see that in Fedora eventually.  My question was prompted by a
>> Debian build failure without -mxgot.
>
>  So what did fail to build then?  That's ultimately what the question I 
> asked boils down to.

This is the Debian bug report about the build failure:

  <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832824>
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