Re: [ECOS] relocaation truncated ?

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

jacky wrote:
> 
> Hi all;
> 
>     I am porting viewml to ecos,but I meet a problem, can someone do me a
> favor to tell me how to solve this. THe following is the error messages:
> 
>  html.o:/home/root/myprojects/mips_for/viewml-0.15/src/g++/stl_alloc.h
>           :473: relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GPREL16
>           __default_alloc_template<false, 0>::start_free
> 
> What is the meaning of R_MIPS_GPREEL16, what will cause this kind of
> error?  Thank you!

Sometimes you see this simply when the symbol isn't found, and another line
of the error message should also help indicate this.

Otherwise it can mean that a 16-bit GP relative relocation was not large
enough to contain the relocation actually needed. This type of thing
happens when two modules access the same symbol, but do so in a different
way, e.g.

int myarray[1];

in one module, which actually is:

int myarray[10];

in a different module. Anything using the first prototype would be given a
smaller relocation than in the latter case.

In other words, it can happen when two modules have two different types for
the same "thing".

Jifl
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