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[John Van Horne]

Hi,

I hope this is an appropriate place for this question.

We are using

Linux Kernel 2.4.4 (Yellow Dog Linux 2.0) for PowerPC
gcc 2.95.2
binutils 2.10
glibc 2.2.1

We've got a huge executable which gets the following error when it tries to run:

/ipnos.nohw.ctl: error while loading shared libraries: /dvlp/hpoliset/sharedLibs/libOB.so.3.3.4: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0e2c7000 for symbol `g_varRC11OBStrForSeq' out of range

When I do a 'size' of the executable I get a text size over 30MB.  When I do a size of the shared library, I get something over 3MB.  It looks to me as though the library was built with the -fPIC option.

Are we hitting a limit in the size of a linked executable for Linux on PPC?  We've hit a limit of 32MB for statically linked images.  Does this also apply when the image is dynamically linked as well?

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Thanks,
-John