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Re: linker problem: relocation truncated to fit
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: linker problem: relocation truncated to fit
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:53:25 -0700
- Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf at oss dot sgi dot com>,Ryan Murray <rmurray at cyberhqz dot com>, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com,binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:40:01PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:55:09AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > It is. Yet I wouldn't like to assign a different meaning to -fpic and
> > -fPIC as most makefiles make little difference between these two options,
> > so that would imply quite some overhead.
>
> There is already such a difference. Sparc uses 13-bit GOT offsets
> with -fpic and 32-bit offsets with -fPIC. I'm considering changes
> to Alpha to use a 16/32 split for pic/PIC.
Can you mix object files compiled with -fPIC/-fpic on Sparc/Alpha?
H.J.