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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with AS from binutils 2.21.1
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:48:53 -0800 (PST)
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Hi,

On Dec 29, 2:56 pm, DJ Delorie <d DOT  DOT  DOT  AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based
> format) if someone wants to port it to djgpp...
>
> Basically, if the number of relocs exceed 65534, 65535 is stored in
> the count (or a flag is set) and the actual count is stored in a
> 32-bit field elsewhere.

Is this what you mean? (Presumably so, but of course I haven't looked
further.)

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2002-07/msg00144.html