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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Ian Soanes <ians@lineo.com>
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Subject: Re: AW: GCC and Modules
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:02:39PM +0100, Ian Soanes wrote:

> This may be a little out of date, but compiling with the module with
> -mlong-calls worked for me when I had similar problems loading modules a
> while back. Relinking the module with 'ld -r -o new_mod.o orig_mod.o'
> was useful too ...it worked around some 'exceeds local_symtab_size'
> messages.

The local_symtab_size symtab is caused by the fine differences between
IRIX ELF and ABI ELF.  More recent binutils versions switched to ABI ELF
as the default.

Not using -mlong-calls results in ``Relocation overflow'' messages.  That's
not the case here, so this option probably was used.

Error messages about _gp_disp proof that the module contains PIC code that
is has not been built using -mno-abicalls -fno-pic.

  Ralf