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Re: [PATCH][ARM] bootstrap/38523 arm build fails to link cc1-dummy / configure tweak for stage1

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 10:09 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:49:54AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Current NetBSD/arm kernels also have the same limit (presumbably because
> > someone assumed that binutils could never cope with building something
> > larger).  So I think it goes further than this.
> 
> You mean that the NetBSD kernel can not run programs with >32MB text,
> right?
> 
Current kernels, yes.  

There's no fundamental reason why the limit can't be lifted, but that's
the default limit and it needs a kernel rebuild to change it.

R.
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