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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