Strange linker problem after updating binutils and gcc

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jan,

> unfortunately there is still an error because the generated elf file
> is wrong - some data are written in high addresses, resulting bin file
> has size of 500MB instead of 500kB.

Have you tried generating a linker map file (-M command line to ld) and 
then looking in this to see what is being stored at the high addresses ?

Cheers
   Nick