From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26851 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2005 13:14:47 -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 26758 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Sep 2005 13:14:29 -0000 Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:14:29 +0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:14:26 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: Any MIPS experts? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:50:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00253.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=702 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. Does any of this ring any bells with MIPS gurus on the list? Has anyone got a fix? Is it meant to be like this or is it a real bug? [*] - http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2005-09/msg00158.html and thread [**] - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg01187.html [***] - http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-02/msg00648.html cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....