dbadhani wrote: > Hi Gurus, > > I upgraded the gcc toolchain to 4.1.2 and started seeing the following > linker errors : > > ------------------ > . > . > aaa_main.o: In function `main_loop': > aaa_main.c:273: relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against > `process_message' > libaaa.a(aaa_soft.ao): In function `increment_stat': > stat.c:84: relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against > `increment_aaa_stat' > . > . > -------------------- > > Here's an excerpt from the disassembly: > ------------------------------- > Disassembly of section .text: > > 00000000 <process_message>: > 0: 8c830000 lw v1,0(a0 > . > . > . > Disassembly of section .text.hot: > . > . > > 000000d8 <main_loop>: > d8: 27bdff60 addiu sp,sp,-160 > dc: ffbc0080 sd gp,128(sp > ------------------------------- > > Why is it generating a jump with a 26 bit address (a gap of 64MB)? See the section "MIPS Options" in the manual, in particular `-mlong-calls' > Why is it separating the functions into ".text" and ".text.hot" sections > even when I've put the object file "aaa_main.o" explicitly in the ".text" > section in the linker script? See the docs for `-freorder-functions' in Section 3.10, Options That Control Optimization. Andrew.
