From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Omar Stradella Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 22:20:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] IP-relative calls in start.S and initfini.c Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jim Wilson wrote: > There is an optional patch in the list archives that adds support to the > linker for handling out of range calls. At the moment, it requires that the > user manually specify -Wl,-relax. You might try using that option to see if > your toolchain already has the patch applied. If not, then you can patch > your toolchain, rebuild it, and this problem should go away. > > Eventually we will have better support for large programs. That may include > changing some of the start up code to avoid some of the problems that you are > seeing. Jim, Thanks, that seems to work. Except that the kernel that I'm running (2.3.99-pre5-000424-17) doesn't seem to support the brl instruction yet. Omar. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Omar G. Stradella, Ph.D. SGI / Chemistry and Biology Applications Group 1 Cabot Rd, Suite 250, Hudson, MA 01749, USA N 42 22'40" W 71 33'44" E-mail: omar@sgi.com Phone: +1-781-839-2258 FAX: +1-978-562-7450 http://www.sgi.com/chembio http://reality.sgi.com/omar +-------- Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn -------+