Re: C++ Template instantiation problem

[Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de>]

Kriti,

gcc 2.96 is pretty old and had some bugs/limitations. You might try a 
current release instead.
If  the current gcc releases still shows the problem you may report the 
bug to the gcc mailing list.

Christian

Kriti Dutta schrieb:

> I am trying to compile some C++ code using the g++ version 2.96 in a Red
>Hat Linux ia64 box.
> And while compiling one of the file which has a lot of code for template
>instantiations I get the following error:
>	 __gp does not cover short data segment
> moreover compilation of this file takes about a day and then finally I get
>the above error.
> I have also tried fragmenting the code into different files even that did
>not work and I got some other kind of error:
> 	gnu.linkonce relocation truncated to fit: PCREL21B
>
> If anybody has ever encountered such errors may be he/she can help us with
>the workaround available.
>
>
>   Kriti.
>