64bit glibc

David Edelsohn dje at watson.ibm.com
Tue Jul 16 11:57:47 EST 2002


>>>>> Anton Blanchard writes:

Anton> 2. The overflow of the TOC is nasty. I just got it while compiling
Anton> samba. We need to fix it one way or another. Compiling everything with
Anton> -mminimal-toc is not a great solution, we should either make gcc much
Anton> more efficient at TOC usage or else add a mixed mode 32/64 bit target
Anton> to gcc. Thoughts?

	Much more efficient TOC usage is quite attainable, but it requires
GCC being smarter about storage pools.  Other work-arounds are
non-starters in my book.

David

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