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To: Richard Hickling <hicklinr AT mcd DOT alcatel DOT be>
cc: "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: reloc overflow - file truncated 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:35:43 +0200."
             <37564C6F DOT 5B27462B AT mcd DOT alcatel DOT be> 
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:45:13 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

Richard Hickling <hicklinr AT mcd DOT alcatel DOT be> writes:
> I've searched the archives and FAQs, and checked
> the info docs for ld.  I can find nothing with a
> solution
> to this overflow problem.  Does anyone know if
> there is one?
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/lib/gcc-lib\
> /i586-cygwin32/egcs-2.91.66/../../../../i586-cygwin32\
> 
> /bin/ld: kernel/protocols/protocols.o: reloc
> overflow:\
> 0x13781 > 0xffff
> kernel/protocols/protocols.o: final close failed:
> File \
> truncated
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This problem does not occur on Solaris.
> 

This is a bug in the GNU binutils for pe-coff target. I don't know of
a solution, but the usual (painful) workaround is to reduce the size of 
the code that tickles the bug until it goes away. 

Regards,
Mumit


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