darwin-powerpc compiler/linker problem

[Mike Stump]

On Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 11:48 AM, 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?

Source code mods to avoid large arrays is the usual work around as I 
recall.

[ I hope I'm not confusing with another problem that looks like this 
one... ]