linux-next: powerpc build failure

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Jun 12 11:38:19 EST 2008


Ingo Molnar writes:

> could this be a tool chain limitation perhaps, or a gcc bug? Or does the 
> allyesconfig size go beyond some fundamental hardware limitation. (i 
> doubt it's the latter)

Direct unconditional branches, including procedure calls, can only
reach +/- 32MB from the address of the branch on powerpc.  So if the
image grows to more than 32MB of text there is a problem unless the
linker is smart enough to insert trampolines.  I don't know whether
GNU ld is that smart.  I'm cc'ing Alan Modra who would know the answer
to that.

Paul.



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