Re: Linking very large programs with inadequate branch displacements

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:55:08AM -0500, Bill Yoder wrote:
> Hi, All:
> 
> We've been using binutils in my research group for 3 years now in  
> order to support a new microprocessor named TRIPS.  So far, things  
> have gone swimmingly.
> 
> Just recently, we've hit a wall in linking very large programs.  The  
> reason is that we are using the processor's branch-with-offset and  
> call-with-offset instructions, consisting of a 20-bit displacement  
> field, for most of our jumps.  When the target address is too far  
> away, that is, when the offset from the PC is too big to fit in the  
> displacement field, our linker complains in the  
> trips_elf_relocate_section() back end and that's as far as we get.
> 

Please check out elfNN_ia64_relax_section in elfxx-ia64.c.


H.J.