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From: Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com>
To: zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com>
Cc: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>, linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: BFD: Warning: Writing section `.text' to huge (ie negative) file offset 0xa1ffff10
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:11:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44801CFF.1010400@mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44801A59.5080508@mips.com>



Nigel Stephens wrote:
>
>>    
>>  8 .rodata       00000190  000000f0  000000f0  000000f0  2**4
>>                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
>>  9 .rodata.str1.4 000005fe  00000280  00000280  00000280  2**2
>>                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
>
> OK. I think that the final .rodata.str1.4 section is causing your 
> problem because the offset between its load address and the other 
> section is huge, causing "objcopy -O binary" to generate a huge file. 
> This is a new section generated by gcc 3.x and above to hold mergeable 
> constant data. Try changing the line in your linker script which (I'm 
> guessing here) probably looks like this:
>
>    *(.rodata)
>
> to:
>
>     *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*)
>

I failed to spot that .rodata also has a "bad" load address. So it looks 
like .rodata also isn't correctly handled in your linker script.

Nigel

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-02 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-01  6:19 BFD: Warning: Writing section `.text' to huge (ie negative) file offset 0xa1ffff10 zhuzhenhua
2006-06-01  9:24 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-06-01 10:56   ` zhuzhenhua
2006-06-01 12:49     ` Nigel Stephens
2006-06-02  0:49       ` zhuzhenhua
2006-06-02  2:50         ` zhuzhenhua
2006-06-02  9:48           ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-06-02 11:00         ` Nigel Stephens
2006-06-02 11:11           ` Nigel Stephens [this message]
2006-06-03  4:36             ` zhuzhenhua

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