From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [x86] gas error: can't extend frag 2134796 chars
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACqU3MW39zXke2HJ8W4NyspsHnB=-tUyzGkk-N=_SHX20-ppig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOoJMOxbm5_tjtpkxER7oJqZpZj3YEjCk_=SpkMvu6S_ig@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems there is a regression in GAS x86-64. The following:
>>
>> # 1 "arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S"
>> # 1 "<built-in>"
>> # 1 "<command-line>"
>> # 1 "./include/generated/autoconf.h" 1
>> # 1 "<command-line>" 2
>> # 1 "arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S"
>> .section ".rodata..compressed","a",@progbits
>> .globl z_input_len
>> z_input_len = 2134796
>> .globl z_output_len
>> z_output_len = 5716952
>> .globl z_extract_offset
>> z_extract_offset = 0x37b000
>> .globl z_extract_offset_negative
>> z_extract_offset_negative = -0x37b000
>> .globl input_data, input_data_end
>> input_data:
>> .incbin "zero"
>> input_data_end:
>>
>> with `zero' being:
>>
>> % dd if=/dev/zero of=zero count=1 bs=2134796
>>
>> triggers:
>>
>> % /src/x86-64/obj/destdir/lib/gcc/x86_64-none-linux/4.7.0/../../../../x86_64-none-linux/bin/as
>> --32 -o piggy.o piggy.s
>> GNU assembler version 2.21.53 (x86_64-none-linux) using BFD version
>> (GNU Binutils) 2.21.53.20110726
>> arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S: Assembler messages:
>> arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S:12: Fatal error: can't extend frag
>> 2134796 chars
>>
>> While the system assembler is fine:
>>
>> % as -v --32 -o piggy.o piggy.s
>> GNU assembler version 2.20.51.0.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux) using BFD
>> version version 2.20.51.0.7-8.fc14 20100318
>
> That is very very old.
>
What is very very old ? the one breaking (snapshot from 2 days ago),
or the one working, shipped in Fedora 14 ?
> Please try the current one from
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/
>
gni ? should not I expect the official binutils (at least the one from
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=summary) to work ?
- Arnaud
>
> --
> H.J.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-29 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-29 16:25 Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-29 17:02 ` H.J. Lu
2011-07-29 17:30 ` Arnaud Lacombe [this message]
2011-07-29 17:40 ` H.J. Lu
2011-07-29 22:47 ` Arnaud Lacombe
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