From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Horman Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:39:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] ia64: increase .data.patch offset Message-Id: <20071114203850.GA2368@verge.net.au> List-Id: References: <200711130855.lAD8tBWd002649@imap1.linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200711130855.lAD8tBWd002649@imap1.linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:07:45 +1100 Peter Chubb wrote: > > > >>>>> "akpm" = akpm writes: > > > > akpm> From: Andrew Morton I get this: > > > > akpm> /opt/crosstool/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/gcc/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > > akpm> section .data.patch [a000000000000500 -> a000000000000507] > > akpm> overlaps section .dynamic [a0000000000003c8 -> a000000000000507] > > > > If you switch to gcc 4.1 the patch section shrinks again and this patch > > isn't necessary. > > It took me two solid days work to generate my current cross-compile suite. > Weep. > > I spose I can keep this patch locally if that's the direction which i64 > wants to take. But in that case ia64 should #error out early if __GNUC__ > is wrong. Hi Peter, can you be a little more specific about what toolchain you are using? I'm using crosstool but the most recent thing that it seems to like is gcc-3.4.5 + glibc 2.3.6. I don't mind working on crosstool a bit to get a newer gcc working, but I'd be grateful of any advice on versions to avoid too much stabbing in the dark. -- Horms, California Edition