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Date: | Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:56:06 -0500 |
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From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
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In-reply-to: | <4EFCDF18.8090607@iki.fi> (message from Andris Pavenis on Thu, 29 |
Dec 2011 22:43:52 +0100) | |
Subject: | Re: problem with AS from binutils 2.21.1 |
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> > Just to be 101% clear about this: this is not a limitation of DJGPP's > > COFF, it's a general limitation of all 32-bit COFF formats. > Well. I'm also afraid that the same limitation will "kill" DJGPP port of > GCC. There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based format) if someone wants to port it to djgpp... Basically, if the number of relocs exceed 65534, 65535 is stored in the count (or a flag is set) and the actual count is stored in a 32-bit field elsewhere.
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