------- Additional Comments From ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE 2008-11-13 14:51 ------- Subject: Re: ld is unable to link 32 bit libffi.so on gcc mainline: Memory exhausted
amodra at bigpond dot net dot au writes: > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2008-11/msg00052.html > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-11/msg00123.html I've checked the oldest version of Sun as available to me, and it behaves just the same: % uname -a SunOS antipasto 5.8 Generic_117350-46 sun4u sparc % touch v9.s % as -V -Qy -s -K PIC -xarch=v8plus -o v9.o v9.s as: Sun WorkShop 6 2003/12/18 Compiler Common 6.0 Patch 114802-02 % readelf -S v9.o There are 5 section headers, starting at offset 0x9c: Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 000034 000024 00 0 0 1 [ 2] .symtab SYMTAB 00000000 000058 000000 10 A 3 1 1 [ 3] .strtab STRTAB 00000000 000058 000000 00 A 0 0 1 [ 4] .comment PROGBITS 00000000 000058 000044 00 0 0 1 Key to Flags: W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings) I (info), L (link order), G (group), x (unknown) O (extra OS processing required) o (OS specific), p (processor specific) The gld problem exists at least as far back as binutils 2.15: % /usr/sfw/bin/gld -V -G -dy -z text -o v9.so v9.o GNU ld version 2.15 Supported emulations: elf32_sparc elf64_sparc v9.o: could not read symbols: Memory exhausted It may be unusual to build gcc with Sun as and GNU ld, but it should work nonetheless. Btw., I've reported the Sun as problem here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-compilers/2008-November/000436.html but have not yet received a response. Rainer -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7023 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
