[Linux-ia64] IP-relative calls in start.S and initfini.c

[Omar Stradella <omar@sgi.com>]

I'm trying to build a large program but the executable coredumps in
_start. The reason is that _start (start.S) calls __libc_start_main using
a IP-relative call instruction. libc is inserted after all the object
files at an address that is more than 16MB away from the call instruction.
Same happens in _init (initfini.c). Could be possible to load the address
in a register and do an indirect call instead ?

Thanks,

Omar.
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