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--- Comment #3 from Petr Pisar <ppisar@???> 2012-07-30 14:18:37 ---
This has nothing to do with PCRE. CFLAGS and LDLAFGS you pass to your compiler
and linker through configure are solely under your control.
I remember there were some fixes in binutils linker regarding GOT construction
on MIPS recently (a year back). However if you refer to GCC 3.4.6, I believe
this notice does not help you. You should try more recent tool-chain.
I use PCRE on n32 MIPS64 platform (natively) every day and I have not hit this
bug. I only recall some issues when linking xulrunner because its build script
hard-coded some erroneous flags.
As documentation states, the flag does not work on PIC code what shared library
is. Read -fpic documentation:
Generate position-independent code (PIC) suitable for use in a
shared library, if supported for the target machine. Such code
accesses all constant addresses through a global offset table
(GOT). The dynamic loader resolves the GOT entries when the
program starts (the dynamic loader is not part of GCC; it is part
of the operating system). If the GOT size for the linked
executable exceeds a machine-specific maximum size, you get an
error message from the linker indicating that -fpic does not work;
in that case, recompile with -fPIC instead. (These maximums are 8k
on the SPARC and 32k on the m68k and RS/6000. The 386 has no such
limit.)
It's possible that MIPS64 with 64-bit pointers consumes the GOT much quickly
than my n32.
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