binutils-2.9.1.0.25 + rtems-patches is broken

[ian at zembu.com (Ian Lance Taylor)]

   Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:07:48 -0500 (CDT)
   From: <joel at oarcorp.com>

   I recall investigating the last time Ralf ran into this.  

   Ian .. does this look familiar to anything on the binutils list?

   On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

   > A linker problem with sptests/sp25 for i386-rtems (elf) / i386ex:
   > 
   > /opt/rtems/bin/i386-rtems-gcc --pipe -B../../../../../i386ex/lib/ -specs bsp_specs
   > -qrtems     -I../../../../../i386ex/lib/include/networking  -g -Wall -ansi -fasm
   > -O4     -o o-i386ex/sp25.coff  o-i386ex/init.o o-i386ex/task1.o
   > ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-dpmem.rel ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-event.rel
   > ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-msg.rel ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-mp.rel
   > ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-part.rel ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-signal.rel
   > ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-timer.rel ../../../../../i386ex/lib/no-rtmon.rel
   > ../../../../../i386ex/lib/libtest.a
   > ../../../../../i386ex/lib/start.o(.initial+0x157): relocation truncated to fit:
   > R_386_16 i8259s_cache
   > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
   > make[5]: *** [o-i386ex/sp25.exe] Error 1

This error just means that there is a 16 bit relocation to an address
which could not be represented in 16 bits.  Normally the fix is to add
a data32 or addr32 prefix to get a 32 bit relocation instead.

Ian