From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38E90159.DB89C967@machinasapiens.com> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:38:49 -0400 From: Pierre Sarrazin MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range, with trivial program Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Last month I posted the following message: From: Pierre Sarrazin Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:25:46 -0500 > This is another message about the "R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range" > problem. I have a trivial program and library system that illustrates it. > I have read some of the previous messages on this topic but the solutions > proposed did not make a difference. > > The problem happens when the dlopened library exports a C++ > function returning 'string', but not when it exports a function > returning 'const char *'. > > Here is the program: [...] The full message is at: http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/200003/msg00025.html I would like to know if there is a chance that this problem will be fixed soon. I have had to suspend my LinuxPPC work for the last month. My company's support for the LinuxPPC platform is delayed by this issue. Is there a way to ask gcc to generate only long branch instructions so as to avoid this whole problem? Thanks. -- Pierre Sarrazin ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/