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There is no way to compile and load a program which uses
more than 262144 string constants.  On other platforms,
"-fpic" and/or "-G 8" can be used to generate
"worst case" code that has "no limits" other than the full
address space.  But currently on ia64, -G is unrecognized
and code compiled -fpic still can get "short data segment
overflow".

(This specific reproducible test case is abstracted from
a real program which is too cumbersome to present in a bug report.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.compile & run generator program genstring.c:
    gcc genstring.c; ./a.out  ## generates f0.c .. f511.c
2.compile a main program and the 512 generated files:
    gcc -c -fpic main.c f*.c
3.attempt to link
    gcc main.o f*.o

----genstring.c
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	int f0,f1,g,h;
    for (h=0; h<512; ++h) {
	char buf[10];
	FILE *file;
	sprintf(buf, "f%d.c", h);
	file = fopen(buf, "w");
	for (f0=0; f0<64; ++f0) {
		fprintf(file, "static char ");
		for (f1=8; --f1>=0; ) {
			fprintf(file, "*s%d%s",
				(f0<<3)|f1, ((0!=f1) ? "," : ";\n") );
		}
	}
	fprintf(file, "void f%d(){\n", h);
	for (f0=0; f0<64; ++f0) {
		for (f1=8; --f1>=0; ) {
			fprintf(file, "\ts%d=\"string %d\";\n",
				(f0<<3)|f1, (f0<<3)|f1 );
		}
	}
	fprintf(file, "}\n");
    	fflush(file);
	fclose(file);
    }
	return 0;
}
-----end genstring.c

-----main.c
extern void f128();
main()
{
	f128();
}
-----end main.c

	

Actual Results:
ld: a.out: short data segment overflowed (0x4001e8 >= 0x400000)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Expected Results:  Successful completion of load with no complaint.