From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9348 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2005 13:37:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9235 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Sep 2005 13:36:46 -0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (134.68.220.30) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:36:46 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EIRFj-0003CQ-6I for binutils@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:36:43 +0000 Received: (qmail 5367 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2005 09:35:17 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 22 Sep 2005 09:35:17 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger To: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Any MIPS experts? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:47:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: "Dave Korn" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509220937.05409.vapier@gentoo.org> X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00254.txt.bz2 On Thursday 22 September 2005 09:14 am, Dave Korn wrote: > PR702 is about object file bloat introduced in recent binutils versions > owing to the alignment of one of the sections having been increased from > 4kB->64kB; the linker is apparently placing explicit padding in the output > files. We've been trying to fix this on the crossgcc list[*] without > success, having tried patches to both gcc[**] and gas[***], and I haven't > been able to track down any discussion of this issue from the mailing list > archives. we use this patch in uClibc: http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/toolchain/binutils/2.16.1/400-mips-ELF_MAXPAGESIZE-4K.patch?rev=10552&view=markup -mike