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Re: [MIPS] Is it legal for the assembler to generate more than 64K sections?
- From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>
- To: Jack Carter <Jack dot Carter at imgtec dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, "binutils\ at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:59:01 +0000
- Subject: Re: [MIPS] Is it legal for the assembler to generate more than 64K sections?
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Jack Carter <Jack.Carter@imgtec.com> writes:
> We have a "canadian_cross" build of LLVM and have been getting off and
> on link time errors from one of the input object files
> RecursiveASTVisitorTest.o. :
>
> (.text._ZN4llvm25SmallVectorTemplateCommonIN5clang19RecursiveASTVisitorINS1_11AttrVisitorEE10EnqueueJobEvE4backEv[_ZN4llvm25SmallVectorTemplateCommonIN5clang19RecursiveASTVisitorINS1_11AttrVisitorEE10EnqueueJobEvE4backEv]+0x64):
> relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GOT16 against `no symbol'
>
> Basically building LLVM with a MIPS GCC. I noticed that the section
> count was way above 16 bits and seized on that as being the culprit.
Ah, OK. Looks like a multigot failure at face value. Are you using
recent binutils (2.24)? It has some fixes in that area.
Thanks,
Richard