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[x86] gas error: can't extend frag 2134796 chars

Arnaud Lacombe lacombar@gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 22:47:00 GMT 2011 
Hi,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:02 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It seems there is a regression in GAS x86-64. The following:
>>>>
>>>> # 1 "arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S"
>>>> # 1 "<built-in>"
>>>> # 1 "<command-line>"
>>>> # 1 "./include/generated/autoconf.h" 1
>>>> # 1 "<command-line>" 2
>>>> # 1 "arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S"
>>>> .section ".rodata..compressed","a",@progbits
>>>> .globl z_input_len
>>>> z_input_len = 2134796
>>>> .globl z_output_len
>>>> z_output_len = 5716952
>>>> .globl z_extract_offset
>>>> z_extract_offset = 0x37b000
>>>> .globl z_extract_offset_negative
>>>> z_extract_offset_negative = -0x37b000
>>>> .globl input_data, input_data_end
>>>> input_data:
>>>> .incbin "zero"
>>>> input_data_end:
>>>>
>>>> with `zero' being:
>>>>
>>>> % dd if=/dev/zero of=zero count=1 bs=2134796
>>>>
>>>> triggers:
>>>>
>>>> % /src/x86-64/obj/destdir/lib/gcc/x86_64-none-linux/4.7.0/../../../../x86_64-none-linux/bin/as
>>>> --32 -o piggy.o piggy.s
>>>> GNU assembler version 2.21.53 (x86_64-none-linux) using BFD version
>>>> (GNU Binutils) 2.21.53.20110726
>>>> arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S: Assembler messages:
>>>> arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S:12: Fatal error: can't extend frag
>>>> 2134796 chars
>>>>
>>>> While the system assembler is fine:
>>>>
>>>> % as -v --32 -o piggy.o piggy.s
>>>> GNU assembler version 2.20.51.0.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux) using BFD
>>>> version version 2.20.51.0.7-8.fc14 20100318
>>>
>>> That is very very old.
>>>
>> What is very very old ? the one breaking (snapshot from 2 days ago),
>> or the one working, shipped in Fedora 14 ?
>
> Sorry.  I was wrong.
>
>>> Please try the current one from
>>>
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/
>>>
>> gni ? should not I expect the official binutils (at least the one from
>> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=summary) to work ?
>>
>>  - Arnaud
>>
>
> It may have been fixed today.
>
yes,

GNU assembler version 2.21.53 (x86_64-none-linux) using BFD version
(GNU Binutils) 2.21.53.20110729

is fine.

Thanks,
 - Arnaud
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