Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_64

[Ramana Radhakrishnan]

You haven't said what options you are using for compilation and what
version of the tools you are using . Also it would be useful to
mention the architecture for which you are compiling for .... :)


Ramana



On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM, kanishk rastogi <kanishk.85@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: kanishk rastogi <kanishk.85@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:37 PM
> Subject: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_64
> To: binutils@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sourceware.org
>
>
> i was trying to compile atomic_32.h in user space which is present in
> linux kernel code ...
> while doing so ... i got this error.....
>
>
> atomic_32.h:28: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_64
> atomic_32.h:34: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_64
> atomic_32.h:40: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_64
>
>
> the corresponding code is ::
> static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long old,
>                                      unsigned long new, int size)
> {
>        unsigned long prev;
>        switch (size) {
>        case 1:
>                asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgb %b1,%2"
>                             : "=a"(prev)
>                             : "q"(new), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
> ------------------>28
>                             : "memory");
>                return prev;
>        case 2:
>                asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgw %w1,%2"
>                             : "=a"(prev)
>                             : "r"(new), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
> ----------------->34
>                             : "memory");
>                return prev;
>        case 4:
>                asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgl %1,%2"
>                             : "=a"(prev)
>                             : "r"(new), "m"(*__xg(ptr)), "0"(old)
> ---------------------->40
>                             : "memory");
>                return prev;
>        }
>        return old;
> }
> ----
> what am i doing wrong...
> thankx
> kanishk
>