Re: [Gm2] Building gm2-4.7.3 on MacOS 10.5.8/PPC (bis)

[Gaius Mulley]

Gaius Mulley <address@hidden> writes:

> john o goyo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 14/09/2014 09:45, john o goyo wrote (in part):
>>> gcc-4.2 [...] -o cc1 [...]
>>> ld: bl out of range (-16837344 max is +/-16M) from _local_define_builtin
>>> at 0x101012DB0 in __text of libbackend.a(tree.o) to _apply_tm_attr at
>>> 0x10000468C in __text of attribs.o in _local_define_builtin from
>>> libbackend.a(tree.o)
>>
>> As you may know, "bl" is the PPC assembler mnemonic for
>> branch-and-link. For reasons unknown, gcc is generating bad assembler,
>> namely a branch to a location too far away.
>
> Hi John,
>
> I wonder if this helps?
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23612499/ld-b-bl-blx-thumb2-branch-out-of-range-from

particularly the reference to "-mno-thumb", but I know very little about
this architecture,

regards,
Gaius