Re: BFD: Warning: Writing section `.text' to huge (ie negative) file offset 0xa1ffff10

[Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com>]

Nigel Stephens wrote:
> >    
> >  8 .rodata       00000190  000000f0  000000f0  000000f0  2**4
> >                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> >  9 .rodata.str1.4 000005fe  00000280  00000280  00000280  2**2
> >                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> OK. I think that the final .rodata.str1.4 section is causing your 
> problem because the offset between its load address and the other 
> section is huge, causing "objcopy -O binary" to generate a huge file. 
> This is a new section generated by gcc 3.x and above to hold mergeable 
> constant data. Try changing the line in your linker script which (I'm 
> guessing here) probably looks like this:
>    *(.rodata)
>
> to:
>
>     *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*)
I failed to spot that .rodata also has a "bad" load address. So it looks 
like .rodata also isn't correctly handled in your linker script.
Nigel