On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Richard Henderson <r...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 07/26/2014 05:35 AM, Uros Bizjak wrote: >> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It looks that GP relative relocations do not fit anymore into GPREL16 >>> reloc, so bootstrap on alpha hosts fail in stage2 with "relocation >>> truncated to fit: GPREL16 against ...". I found no other solution but >>> to pass --no-relax to linker in order to finish the bootstrap. >>> >>> 2011-05-02 Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> >>> >>> PR target/47230 >>> * configure.ac (alpha*-*-linux*): Use mh-alpha-linux. >>> * configure: Regenerate. >>> >>> config/ChangeLog: >>> >>> 2011-05-02 Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> >>> >>> PR target/47230 >>> * mh-alpha-linux: New file. >>> >>> Patch was bootstrapped and regression tested with "GNU ld (GNU >>> Binutils) 2.21" on alphaev68-pc-linux-gnu [1]. >>> >>> OK for 4.6. and 4.7 ? >>> >>> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2011-05/msg00089.html >> >> Patch was committed to mainline SVN, 4.9 and 4.8 branches. > > FYI, this was a bug in ld that I fixed "recently", i.e. after the current 2.24 > release. It's an ok workaround for release branches, but I'd like it not to > be > committed to mainline please.
Perhaps even better solution for mainline would be to detect a recent enough linker and skip the workaround in that case? I guess that 2.25 will have this issue fixed? Uros.
