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PATCH: PR 463: Relocation overflow message should be more informational

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:53:17PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Certain ia64 relocations have to be against small data sections.
> Otherwise, linker will complain
> 
> foo (.text+0x46b2): In function `x()': relocation truncated to fit: GPREL22 y 
> 
> It isn't clear why it fails. With this patch, I got
> 
> foo.o (.text+0x46b2): In function `x()': relocation truncated to fit: GPREL22 `y' defined in section .bss in bar.o
> 
> Now it is clear that it is a compiler bug.
> 
> 

I decided to make a generic patch. Here is a patch.


H.J.

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