On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:54:14AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Richard W. M. Jones: > > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 01:48:45PM -0600, Jerry James wrote: > >> When ocamlopt is used with binutils 2.35 to link an executable, we now > >> get warnings that look like this: > >> > >> /usr/bin/ld: tests/test_topsort.o: warning: relocation in read-only > >> section `.text' > >> /usr/bin/ld: warning: creating DT_TEXTREL in a PIE > > > > 32 bit is an architectural problem for OCaml. Specifically because of > > how the GC block headers are implemented it limits arrays / strings to > > a maximum of 4M entries / 4M bytes, which was probably fine back in > > the day but is unreasonably small today. [1] > > I don't see how this is related to text relocations. > > The problem seems to be lack of PIE support in ocamlopt on i386, as > correctly identified by the warning. I mean any time spent fixing OCaml on 32 bit is time wasted. If it happens on x86-64 then that's a problem we need to look at. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
