Luck, Tony wrote on Friday, January 21, 2005 5:03 PM > >- __gp = ADDR(.got) + 0x200000; > >+ __gp = _end - 0x200000; > > Did we used to link the ".got" section earlier? It's after "data" now, > but the expression used there might have made sense if ".got" was before > the "data". > > _end - 0x200000 may work for you now, but won't this be very configuration > dependent? If I configure lots of drivers with "=y" option, and they > declare lots of "bss" objects, then __gp may still be too high to reach the > interesting data objects. > > Would an expression anchoring on the ".sdata" section be better?
I wish I can do that. But I'm frustrated that __gp is jailed in between GOT section and the linker symbol _end. There are references to _end from a couple of functions like reserve_memory(), mem_init() that compiler insist on using gp relative to calculate value of _end. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
