On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Steve Ellcey <s...@cup.hp.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:31 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Steve Ellcey <s...@cup.hp.com> writes:
>>
>> > because the crt files can't handle the large code model if they aren't
>> > compiled with this option.
>>
>> My understanding is that this would likely break old linkers which
>> didn't do all large model relocations correctly. Right now they
>> work as long as you don't need the large model.
>
> Are these old GNU linkers or old system/non-GNU linkers?  We often
> require a certain minimum version of binutils for GCC to work.
>
>> BTW the standard way to work around large model issues if your
>> code isn't really that large but you just want to move it is to move
>> parts of the programs into a .so and compile -fPIC. large is only
>> really needed if you really have gigantic programs (but then gcc
>> tends to be also quite slow on them)
>
> It's not really a gigantic program, it is a program where he wants to
> put all his text in the upper address range (using the --section-start
> option of the GNU linker).
>
>

Hi Steve,

Can you open a bug report with a testcase?

Thanks.


-- 
H.J.

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