darwin-powerpc compiler/linker problem

[Andrew Pinski]

On Mar 23, 2004, at 11:48, Laurent GUERBY wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to compile a large Ada application with macada.org GCC
> 3.3-apple based GNAT and with 3.5. In both cases I managed to compile
> the software, but at link time I get piles of linker message like
> the following:
>
> ld: xxx.o relocation overflow for relocation entry 587 in section
> (__TEXT,__text) (displacement too large)
>
> I tried -fno-common, -mminimal-toc, -fPIC (all found via google) and
> various other combinations but without success. Small programs
> or ACATS have no problem compiling, linking and running (-fno-common
> needed with 3.5 though).
>
> Any idea of what to try?

Yes this is a known linker bug for Darwin's linker, there is nothing
you can do about it except to complain to Apple or fix the linker
yourself.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski