dangerous relocation: generic linker can't handle R_PPC_VLE_HA16A

[snafu]

Hello

I moved to powerpc-eabivle-4_9 toolchain of S32DS from other vendor gnu toolchain which was able to compile only BookE. I wanted to use CodeBlocks as in the previous project so I updated library and linker path and when compilation an linking are started following commands are issued:

(majority of switches are taken from S32DS vle project created for cpu mpc5633m)

compiler:

powerpc-eabivle-gcc.exe -Wall -g -fmessage-length=0 -mcpu=e200z3 -specs=nosys.specs -mbig --sysroot="C:\NXP\S32DS_Power_v2017.R1\Cross_Tools\powerpc-eabivle-4_9\powerpc-eabivle\newlib"  -DSTART_FROM_FLASH -DMPC563xM -DE200Z3    -Ic:/NXP/S32DS_Power_v2017.R1/Cross_Tools/powerpc-eabivle-4_9/include/ -Ic:/NXP/S32DS_Power_v2017.R1/Cross_Tools/powerpc-eabivle-4_9/lib/gcc/powerpc-eabivle/4.9.4/include/ -c {file-to-compile.c}  {file-to-compile.o}

linker:

powerpc-eabivle-gcc.exe  {a lof of *.o files...} -T "mpc5633-bldr-vle.ld" -nostartfiles -nostdlib -Wl,-Map=map.txt -Xlinker --gc-sections -mcpu=e200z3 -specs=nosys.specs --sysroot="C:\NXP\S32DS_Power_v2017.R1\Cross_Tools\powerpc-eabivle-4_9\powerpc-eabivle\newlib"  -lm -lc -lgcc

When linking stage starts I get a lot of following errors

etpu2/etpu/_utils/etpu_util.c:117:(.text+0x18): dangerous relocation: generic linker can't handle R_PPC_VLE_HA16A
etpu2/etpu/_utils/etpu_util.c:123:(.text+0x52): dangerous relocation: generic linker can't handle R_PPC_VLE_HA16A
etpu2/etpu/_utils/etpu_util.c:124:(.text+0x64): dangerous relocation: generic linker can't handle R_PPC_VLE_HA16A

I suppose linker is able to link vle code including vle relocation. So I don't understand why the problem arises.

Could anybody help to fix the problem?

Thank you

[snafu · Accepted solution]

The problem was this command in linker script

OUTPUT_FORMAT(srec)

When removed no relocation errors were generated

[stanish]

Hi,

please make sure you also recompiled file etpu_utils/etpu_util.c by S32DS GCC VLE compiler

I suspect you may be linking an object file compiled by a different compiler.

Stan

[snafu]

Hi Stan

thank you for the help. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the solution,

because this is the actually the first file

that is compiled.

powerpc-eabivle-gcc.exe -Wall -g -fmessage-length=0 -mcpu=e200z3 -specs=

nosys.specs -mbig -mvle --sysroot="C:\NXP\S32DS_Power_v2017.R1\Cross_Tools\

powerpc-eabivle-4_9\powerpc-eabivle\newlib" -DGCC_MPC5633  -DSTART_FROM_

FLASH -DMPC563xM -DE200Z3    -Ic:/NXP/S32DS_Power_v2017.R1/Cross_Tools/

powerpc-eabivle-4_9/include/ -Ic:/NXP/S32DS_Power_v2017.R1/Cross_Tools/

powerpc-eabivle-4_9/lib/gcc/powerpc-eabivle/4.9.4/include/ {more -I...}  -c

C:/system/3rdparty/etpu2/etpu/_utils/etpu_util.c -o ../bin/debug-vle/o/

system/3rdparty/etpu2/etpu/_utils/etpu_util.o

and the file is compiled properly without any warning.

Would you have another idea?

thanks

[alexanderfedoto]

Hello Pavel

Seems like your "etpu_util" comes from 3rd party folder as precompiled object. If this object have been produced using old version of binutils ( version earlier than 2.28) - it my contain an relocation error. Since binutils 2.28 this was fixed but unforunately backward compatibility with old objects is lost. You can try to use --vle-reloc-fixup option for linker in order to fixup this.

Could you please copy here entire error from command line.

[snafu]

Hello Alexander

thank you for your help. I compiled all the etpu_util files, so that's not the problem. Finally I solved it by removing OUTPUT_FORMAT(srec) from linker script, but I have no idea why it didn't work. It used to work with other gcc toolchain. Now I do srec by invoking powerpc-eabivle-objcopy -O {input} {outpu} and everything is fine.

regards

Pavel