Re: [ECOS] Linking problem

[Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:28:02PM +0100, Igor Trevisan wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> In the following lines you can see a part of the output messages
> generated by the make process. 
> Can anybody explain me the meaning of the error message
> and, why not, a way to solve the problem?
> Thanks a lot in advance...
> 	Igor.
> 
> 
> attempt to open /arm-ecos-tools/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/gcc-lib/arm-
> elf/2.95.2/libgcc.a succeeded
> (/arm-ecos-tools/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/gcc-lib/arm-
> elf/2.95.2/libgcc.a)_ashrdi3.o
> (/arm-ecos-tools/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/gcc-lib/arm-
> elf/2.95.2/libgcc.a)_ctors.o
> (/arm-ecos-tools/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/gcc-lib/arm-
> elf/2.95.2/libgcc.a)_fixunsdfsi.o
> (/arm-ecos-tools/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/gcc-lnandsupp.o: In function 
> `NANDRead_256':
> nandsupp.o(.text+0xb0): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_PC24 
> *UND*
> nandsupp.o(.text+0xdc): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_PC24 
> *UND*

Humm, could be wrong here, but i think i understand. The normal ARM
jump instructions only has space for a 24 bit offset to jump. So you
can only jump forward or backward 2^23 bytes. Normally this is not a
problem, but it can be if you have your code split across two sections
of memory which are widely spaced. eg, you had DRAM from 0-16Mbytes,
and FLASH at say somewhere in the middle of the address space. In this
case the offset is bigger than 23 bits. When this happens you have to
use a different way of jumping from one to the other. The compiler has
to be told which are local and which are remote etc. 

Like is said, this is not normally a problem since its not normal to
want to split your code between flash and DRAM. Maybe you do, but i
guess not....

My guess is you have a confused linker script, or you have swapped
from ROM startup to RAM startup without re-making all the object
files. 

I suggest you delete your work tree and build it again from
scratch. Do the same for the application code. See if that solves your
problem.

        Andrew

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