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Re: [x86] gas error: can't extend frag 2134796 chars
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems there is a regression in GAS x86-64. The following:
>>>
>>> # 1 "arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S"
>>> # 1 "<built-in>"
>>> # 1 "<command-line>"
>>> # 1 "./include/generated/autoconf.h" 1
>>> # 1 "<command-line>" 2
>>> # 1 "arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S"
>>> .section ".rodata..compressed","a",@progbits
>>> .globl z_input_len
>>> z_input_len = 2134796
>>> .globl z_output_len
>>> z_output_len = 5716952
>>> .globl z_extract_offset
>>> z_extract_offset = 0x37b000
>>> .globl z_extract_offset_negative
>>> z_extract_offset_negative = -0x37b000
>>> .globl input_data, input_data_end
>>> input_data:
>>> .incbin "zero"
>>> input_data_end:
>>>
>>> with `zero' being:
>>>
>>> % dd if=/dev/zero of=zero count=1 bs=2134796
>>>
>>> triggers:
>>>
>>> % /src/x86-64/obj/destdir/lib/gcc/x86_64-none-linux/4.7.0/../../../../x86_64-none-linux/bin/as
>>> --32 -o piggy.o piggy.s
>>> GNU assembler version 2.21.53 (x86_64-none-linux) using BFD version
>>> (GNU Binutils) 2.21.53.20110726
>>> arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S: Assembler messages:
>>> arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S:12: Fatal error: can't extend frag
>>> 2134796 chars
>>>
>>> While the system assembler is fine:
>>>
>>> % as -v --32 -o piggy.o piggy.s
>>> GNU assembler version 2.20.51.0.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux) using BFD
>>> version version 2.20.51.0.7-8.fc14 20100318
>>
>> That is very very old.
>>
> What is very very old ? the one breaking (snapshot from 2 days ago),
> or the one working, shipped in Fedora 14 ?
Sorry. I was wrong.
>> Please try the current one from
>>
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/
>>
> gni ? should not I expect the official binutils (at least the one from
> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=summary) to work ?
>
> ?- Arnaud
>
It may have been fixed today.
--
H.J.