Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: relocation overflow

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for your reply!

Geoff Keating <address@hidden> writes:

> > Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <address@hidden>, Alan Modra <address@hidden>,
> >    address@hidden, address@hidden
> > From: Camm Maguire <address@hidden>
> > Date: 20 Nov 2002 21:45:23 -0500
> 
> > Greetings, and thanks for your reply!
> > 
> > Geoff Keating <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:01:59PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> 
> > > > PowerPC GCC doesn't seem to have a long-calls option, so you're just
> > > > out of luck if you can't fit things in 16MB.  Trampolines may be the
> > > > way to go.
> > > 
> > > The way this is normally done, for programs that load arbitrary
> > > modules, is that each module is a .so file, is built with -fpic, and
> > > is loaded using the dlsym functions.  Then the limit is 32Mb per
> > > module, and you can have as many modules as your address space can
> > > fit; cross-module calls happen through a PLT which can perform long
> > > jumps.
> > 
> > OK, when I first read this, I thought that -fPIC would eliminate 24bit
> > relocs.  I was mistaken, and have just verified that the reloc
> > overflows are different, but still present, when adding -fPIC.  On
> > rereading this, it appears as though the dlym code has trampolines to
> > handle long calls on 24bit relocs.  Maybe I should look here.
> 
> Perhaps you are trying to load .o files, not .so files?  There should
> be no *24 relocs in a .so file if all its contents are built with
> -fpic or -fPIC.

OK, this is what I thought you meant the first time.  Unfortunately,
this does not seem to be the case:

address@hidden:~/gcl-2.5.0.cvs20020625/o$ gcc -c -Wall -DVOL=volatile 
-fsigned-char -fwritable-strings -pipe -fPIC main.c -o main.o
address@hidden:~/gcl-2.5.0.cvs20020625/o$ objdump -x main.o |grep 24
00000024       O *COM*  00000004 Cnil_body
00000024       O *COM*  00000004 Dotnil_body
00000024       O *COM*  00000004 Ct_body
00002460 g     F .text  00000084 siLinitialization_failure
000024e8 g     F .text  00000054 Lidentity
00000048 R_PPC_PLTREL24    setbuf
00000058 R_PPC_PLTREL24    setbuf
...
00000024 R_PPC_ADDR32      system_directory
000000b4 R_PPC_ADDR32      .data+0x00000024

Perhaps I need to pass each module through ld -shared too?

Take care,


> 
> -- 
> - Geoffrey Keating <address@hidden>
> 
> 

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