xc16x-elf-as: relocation overflow

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Conny,

> I am getting the following error:
> 
> $ xc16x-elf-as regex.S
> regex.S: Assembler messages:
> regex.S:21606: Error: relocation overflow

> What does the error mean? Is the size of the '_xre_search' segment to big?
> Can I adapt 'xc16x-elf-as' that it can handle it?

Quite possibly.  Please could you open a bug report here:

   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla

If you can include the regex.S testcase that will help a great deal.

 > Can I adapt 'xc16x-elf-as' that it can handle it?

I doubt it, but you may be able to change the regex.S source file to 
accommodate the restricted address space of the xc16x.

> could it be that the 'reloc_howto_type' isn't correct defined?

It looks OK to me.

> Can someone explain the structure?

The fields are documented in the bfd/reloc.c source file.

> And maybe give me an example how to fill in 
> the structure?

The best way is to look at how the structure is used by other ports.

Cheers
   Nick