Re: [Linux-ia64] ld failure

Christoph Rohland
2000-05-03T07:33:51Z

Hi Jim,

Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> writes:
> /usr/bin/ld: dw: __gp does not cover short data segment
>
> Sorry, I forgot to answer this.
>
> Something is still broken. I don't know what. There are a few ways
> that you could get here.
> 1) You have a program with millions of small static scalar
> variables. If so, try using -mno-sdata, or rewrite your program.

-mno-sdata does not help.

> 2) You are explicitly allocating variables to the short data
> segment, either by using attribute section, or by using a special
> linker script, or by writing assembly language code that puts
> data in the short data segement. If so, you need to fix your
> code to stop putting so much data in the short data segment.

No, we do not use any assembler or attribute section commands.

> 3) There is a linker bug, that is causing the out-of-range call
> support to fail in a way that makes it look like the short data
> segment is too big.
>
> #3 seems like the most likely explanation. We would need a complete
> testcase to reproduce this, which means a copy of all object files
> and libraries that you are linking together, together with the
> linker command line. Fixing this would be a low priority, so it may
> be a few weeks before it gets fixed.

So this seems to be the case.

Greetings
Christoph