From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:18:15 +0100 (BST) Received: from vigor.karmaclothing.net ([217.169.26.28]:10199 "EHLO vigor.karmaclothing.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S62076964AbYGBNSH (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:18:07 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by vigor.karmaclothing.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m62DHKom003359 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:17:46 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m62DHKvJ003352 for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:17:20 +0100 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:17:20 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Branch out of range issues Message-ID: <20080702131720.GC15896@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 19698 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Recently a few people have reported "branch out of range" problems building recent kernels. One way to fix those - at the risk of causing considerable collateral damage - is using -ffunction-sections. I'm hessitating to make a change like this so short before a kernel release since at this point I'm not convinved that this is actually needed. Anyway I'd appreciate feedback on the problem. Thanks, Ralf