From: Dean Povey <povey@dstc.qut.edu.au>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: alpha/OSF1 -g bug
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199711112325.JAA25204@typhoon.dstc.qut.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199711112319.SAA29795@subrogation.cygnus.com>
> From: Dean Povey <povey@dstc.qut.edu.au>
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 97 09:15:12 +1000
>
> > From: Dean Povey <povey@dstc.qut.edu.au>
> > Date: Fri, 07 Nov 97 12:01:20 +1000
> >
> > mips-tfile, /tmp/ccaauAsa.s:1421 String too big (4104 bytes)
> >
> >It's mips-tfile which is reporting the error. That is part of egcs.
> >You can probably just increase the size of PAGE_SIZE in mips-tfile.c
> >to make it work again. I'm not sure why mips-tfile.c has this fixed
> >limit.
> >
>
> Nope, that breaks the compiler.
>
> There must be a better way.
>
>Well, I don't know what it is.
>
>I do know that the error is coming from the mips-tfile program which
>is part of gcc. It's not a bug in the OSF assembler, nor in gcc.
>
That is definitely right. It is choking on this line of code:
STATIC symint_t
add_string (vp, hash_tbl, start, end_p1, ret_hash)
varray_t *vp; /* string virtual array */
shash_t **hash_tbl; /* ptr to hash table */
const char *start; /* 1st byte in string */
const char *end_p1; /* 1st byte after string */
shash_t **ret_hash; /* return hash pointer */
{
register Ptrdiff_t len = end_p1 - start;
register shash_t *hash_ptr;
symint_t hi;
if (len >= PAGE_USIZE)
fatal ("String too big (%ld bytes)", (long) len);
I am not up on the gcc architecture, but the comments in mips-tfile seem to
indicate that because the strings are being stored in hash tables, they
can't exceed page boundaries. This seems like a bit of a painful limitation
with the size of strings generated by C++ mangling of names. I am not sure
that
this is an easily fixed problem.
Thanks for your help anyway.
Dean.
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Research Scientist, Security Unit, | Phone: +61 7 3864 2799
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