From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Wilson Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:43:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] ld --relax, yet still: "relocation truncated to fit: PCREL21B" or "can't relax sect 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 >| ./Tjdb-interp2/O.ia64-linux_n/plo_0.o: In function `func1': >| ./Tjdb-interp2/O.ia64-linux_n/plo_0.o(.text+0x1046862): relocation truncated to fit: PCREL21B func2 >| ... >| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Do you have a testcase I can look at? As far as I know, --relax still works. This problem happens when you are calling a function that is too far away for the offset in a br.call instruction. Or jumping to a branch that is too far away. This could be a toolchain bug, or it could be a problem with the program. >| /usr/bin/ld: can't relax section: No such file or directory >| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status This was a temporary problem. It occurs if you have a toolchain with Richard Henderson's 2000-10-09 bfd patch for sorting unwind sections, but don't have his 2000-10-24 bfd patch which makes it work. I never released a toolchain with the first patch but not the second. Perhaps you got a toolchain from someone else? Or maybe you applied random patches from some mailing list to your toolchain? > gcc version 2.96-ia64-000717 snap 000925 > GNU ld version 2.9-ia64-000717 (with BFD 2.9-ia64-000717)) This is 2 months obsolete. The 001117 snapshot should be used instead of this one. Jim