Nightly test result of systemtap in ppc64

[Hien Nguyen]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>Hien Nguyen <hien@us.ibm.com> writes:
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>>FAIL: /root/stap_testing_200604241559/src/testsuite/buildok/syscall.stp
>>This is the output of gcc for the test about.
>>{standard input}: Assembler messages:
>>{standard input}:690082: Error: operand out of range
>>(0x0000000000008000 is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and
>>0x0000000000007fff)
>>[...]
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>Could you run this test by hand, with "stap -k ...", then editing
>TMPDIR/Makefile to add "CFLAGS+=-save-temps", rerunning the kbuild
>make command, and finally locating the instructions the assembler is
>complaining about?
>
>If they're branches, this could be related to my recent addition of
>"-freorder-blocks" to the probe object CFLAGS.
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>- FChE
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The offended code look like these
ld 28,.LC29584-.LCTOC1(30)
[...]
ld 0,.LC29595-.LCTOC1(30)
etc...

Does not look like branches. I tried it without -freorder-blocks with 
same result. I am going to chase down this problem.