Re: Gcc 4.2.2 broken for kernel builds

[David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:48:54AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>> From: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:48:54 -0700
>> To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
>> Subject: Re: Gcc 4.2.2 broken for kernel builds
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>> Ralf Baechle wrote:
>>> So it looks as if gcc 4.2.2 is broken for kernel builds resulting in the
>>> following error message with binutils 2.18:
>>>
>>>  CC      drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.o
>>> mipsel-linux-ld: drivers/mtd/.tmp_mtd_blkdevs.o: Can't find matching LO16 
>>> reloc against `$LC6' for R_MIPS_HI16 at 0x9e0 in section `.text'
>>>  CC      drivers/mtd/chips/chipreg.o
>>>
>>> Older binutils throw a more cryptic error message about the bad assembler
>>> code generated by gcc:
>>>
>>>  CC      drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.o
>>> mipsel-linux-ld: final link failed: Bad value
>>> make[2]: *** [drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.o] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [drivers/mtd] Error 2
>>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>>>
>>> Just as heads up ...
>>>
>> Could you file a bug report here:
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/
>>
>> If you could include a pointer to the kernel sources you were using and 
>> perhaps attach your .config to the bug that might be useful as well.
> 
> If I had the time I'd have done that.  Short of that posting a warning is
> what I can do.

I opened this bug:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33755

As more information becomes available about this feel free to add it to 
the GCC bug report.

Thanks,
David Daney