ld errors -- wrong output section for SDAREL target

[Momchil Velikov]

Hi,

gcc-2.92.2
ld, gas: latest CVS

I get zillions of errors of the following kind:

/usr/local/powerpc-svr4/bin/ld: /home/velco/os/boot/powerpc/boot.o: The
target (stdout) of a R_PPC_SDAREL16 relocation is in the wrong output
section (.data)
/usr/local/powerpc-svr4/bin/ld: /home/velco/os/boot/powerpc/boot.o: The
target (dmon_device) of a R_PPC_SDAREL16 relocation is in the wrong
output section (.bss)
/usr/local/powerpc-svr4/bin/ld: /home/velco/os/boot/powerpc/boot.o: The
target (<local symbol>) of a R_PPC_SDAREL16 relocation is in the wrong
output section (.data)

All the objects were compiled with the -msdata option. The relevant
portion of the
ld script is:

  . = ALIGN(0x1000);
  .data	:
   { *(.data)
     *(.gnu.linkonce.d*)
     _SDA_BASE_ = . + 32768;
     PROVIDE(__ctors_start = .);
     *(.ctors)
     PROVIDE(__ctors_end = .);
     *(.sdata)
   }

  _edata  =  .;
  PROVIDE (edata = .);

  .bss			: { *(.sbss) *(.bss) *(COMMON)			}
  _end = . ;
  PROVIDE (end = .);

Yep, it's somewhat unusual. The reason is the bogus bootloader (Apple OF
1.0.5)
-- it initializes only .text, .data and .bss sections.

Does anybody have an idea how to cope with this situation ?
Is is possible for the linker to relocate against the value of
_SDA_BASE_ ?

Regards,
-velco