[Gcl-devel] loncalls broken?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  gcl has traditionally used some flavor of -mlongcalls switch to gcc
to get around the following build failures:

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alpha:
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;; Loading boot.lisp
;; Compiling ../lsp/gcl_listlib.lsp.
Warning: NTH-VALUE is being redefined.
;; End of Pass 1.  
;; End of Pass 2.  
;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=0 (No runtime error checking), Space=0, Speed=0, 
(Debug quality ignored)
;; Finished compiling ../lsp/gcl_listlib.o.
;; Loading /build/buildd/gclcvs-2.7.0/lsp/gcl_listlib.o
reloc for .text is overflowing

Error: ERROR "Cannot get relocated section contents
"
Signalled by LOAD1.
ERROR "Cannot get relocated section contents
"
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ppc:
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;; Compiling ../cmpnew/gcl_cmptop.lsp.
;; End of Pass 1.  
;; End of Pass 2.  
;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=0 (No runtime error checking), Space=0, Speed=0, 
(Debug quality ignored)
;; Finished compiling ../cmpnew/gcl_cmptop.o.
;; Loading /build/buildd/gclcvs-2.7.0/cmpnew/gcl_cmptop.o
reloc for _mcount is overflowing

Error: ERROR "Cannot get relocated section contents
"
Signalled by LOAD1.
ERROR "Cannot get relocated section contents
"
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-mlongcall used on ppc, didn't think alpha required anything special
 in this regard.  Is there a reliable way I can get full word sized
 relocs out of gcc on all platforms?

Take care,

Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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