[MIPS] Is it legal for the assembler to generate more than 64K sections?

[Richard Sandiford]

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