How to debug "relocation truncated" error.
Carlo Wood
carlo@alinoe.com
Sat Aug 18 08:51:00 GMT 2001
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:58:14PM -0700, Doug Broadwell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm cross compiling code using the m68k-pic-coff-gcc compiler, version
> 2.7.2.3-pic-060999, on an Intel Linux machine . The command line:
>
> m68k-pic-coff-gcc main.c monitor.o graph.o
>
> results in the error:
>
> monitor.o(.text+0xdf8):monitor.c: relocation truncated to fit: DISP16
> data
>
> I don't know how to go about debugging this error as the assembly output
> does not give address information (nor the C code interleaved with the
> assembly code). It does not generate the executable so I can't debug using
> GDB (assuming I got it set up to work on the remote machine).
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks, Doug Broadwell
The easiest way to find .text+0xdf8 is by doing:
nm monitor.o | sort
Then look for the symbol (function) name that starts on or before 0xdf8
(the first column). I don't know what "relocation truncated" means.
--
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
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