On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:30:36AM -0700, Dennis Newbold wrote: > Dear Linux-mips list members: > > I'm trying to build gcj (GNU Java ahead-of-time compiler) from > the sources. It ran for quite awhile, and then on a particular file, > it got about 20 "Error: branch out of range" errors from the gas > assembler. I'm hoping that someone on this list that understands gcc > and mips assembler better than I can suggest a command-line switch or > some other way to get gcc to generate code which does not result in > this error. > > Details: source file, and assembler output file are in the attached zip > file. Command line used to invoke gcc is: > > gcc -c -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -fno-common -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. > -I../../gcc/gcc -I../../gcc/gcc/config -I../../gcc/include > ../../gcc/gcc/expr.c > > Assembly output file was produced using the above command line, replacing > "-c" with "-S". > > I'm building it with gcc 2.95.3 and GNU make vers. 3.75 on a Linux-mips > system. The configure script says that the cpu type is > mipsel-pc-linux-gnu. In any case, the processor is the QED (now > PMC-Sierra) RM5230. > > Also, if anyone has successfully built gcj for a MIPS system, and would > mind sending me a copy of the binary executable(s), that would work too. > The gcc 3.2 mips/mipsel binary rpms for RedHat 7.3 are at ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.3/test/ They come from my RedHat 8.0 MIPS port. The simple install instructions are in INSTALL. I am interested in any feedbacks. gcj is in there. H.J.
