Re: gdb

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 9 May 1996 10:16:11 +0200 (MET DST)

> Most functions calls are going to be withing the 4MB window, and they are
> going to be to a function with the same gp value (doesn't the current
> linker warn you when it has to use multiple gp's? I've never seen that
> warning, so it hasn't happened with any programs I've done, but it might
> happen with programs I'm not aware of).

this happens when linking the X11 server. this is the *stripped* binary
(and adding PEX, XIE, and eventually MESA for GLX/OpenGL support will
get much larger ;-)

-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 3235840 May 9 10:12 XF86_S3

Harald

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