Chris Plummer wrote: > > > Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > Chris Plummer wrote: > > [snip] > > > indy-01$ cc test.c -mips2 > > > indy-01$ ./a.out > > > bash: ./a.out: No such file or directory > > > > What happens with -static? > > > This fixes the problem. I'm not sure why.
It only circumvents it. The dynamic loader was a bit fishy, and probably still is for litte-tested corner cases. > > [snip] > > > The reason I'm using -mips2 is because there is a bug in gcc that causes > > > it to fail to compile a very large (>32k) function I have. It produces > > > forward branches to targets that are out of range. Using -mips2 fixes > > > this problem. > > > > Older compilers (like the one in woody) take -mips2 as a hint to generate > > o32 code. Newer ones use -mips2 as an alias for -arch=r6000 and rely on > > the -mabi switch for ABI selection. > > > I don't see the relationship between out-of-range forward branches and > the ABI. They should be independent. The compiler should never generate out-of-range branches, but it did under some circumstances, ABI-dependently. IIRC this is fixed upstreams since gcc 3.3. Thiemo
