[Gcl-devel] Re: relocation overflow

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2002-11-20 at 04:26, Camm Maguire wrote: 
> Greetings!  On ppc, GCL loads binary object modules at specific
> address in its lisp core, relocating them via a call to
> bfd_get_relocated_section_contents.  This works in general, but in
> certain cases of many such loadings and a large base executable, the
> routine reports that function symbols in the module overflow on
> attempted relocation.  I thought this was a TOC issue, and could be
> addressed via -mminimal-toc, but no dice.  All tests thus far with gcc
> 2.95, but I'm inclined to think that 3.2 will be the same.  
> 
> Does this problem ring a bell (and hopefully a solution) with anyone?

Just a guess: maybe some code needs to be built with -fPIC?


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