Wei Li <liwe...@gmail.com> writes: > I am working on huge object files and I am glad to see that gcc > supports -mcmodel=large now. However, my experiment even doesn't work > because of relocation problem in crtbeginS.o
This message was not appropriate for the mailing list gcc@gcc.gnu.org, which is for the development of gcc itself. It would be appropriate for the mailing list gcc-h...@gcc.gnu.org. Please take any followups to gcc-help. Thanks. Basically, you have encountered a problem which is a cross between a bug and an installation issue. In order to use -mcmodel=large reliably, you really need to compile everything with -mcmodel=large. In this case, the startup file crtbeginS.o, which is part of gcc, was not compiled with -mcmodel=large. This can be fixed with a minor gcc source code modification, but the effect will be to build -mcmodel=large versions of all the gcc libraries. Distros may prefer to avoid that. So the best approach here may be to add yet another configure option to request that this be done. Please consider filing an enhancement request at http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ . Thanks. Ian