Re: "relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_CALL16"

[Niklaus <niklaus@gmail.com>]

On 4/23/06, zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com> wrote:
> i want to write a mini bootloader for my board, so i need jump to c
> code from asm code
> but when i compile and ld, i get "relocation truncated to fit:
> R_MIPS_CALL16" messages for every function call..
I had this error sometime back.
I increased the size of ROM0 and RAM0 in linker script which was used by ld.

I initially had problem using mips-linux-gcc(only for linux userspace
application) toolchain, when i used the target mips-elf-gcc(this one
should be used) i got around it.

> i have try the mips_4KCle-gcc(worked for u-boot),
> mips_fp_le-gcc(worked for mvita linux), and also a
> mipsel-linux-gcc(worked for my linux 2.6 kernel), but they all failed,
> even i add -G0 to gcc.
> and i only compile success by using mips-elf-gcc under cygwin.
> does it be caused by binutils version? or gcc compile CFLAGS?
> thanks for any hints
>
> Best Regards
>
> Zhuzhenhua
>
>