[U-Boot] powerpc/mpc8xxx failed to compile: operand out of range

[Jérôme Arzel]

Binutils 2.23.1 and the patch(es) for 2.23.2 work well.
Thank you for your help.

Jérôme

On 05/31/2013 08:20:00 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> On 05/23/2013 04:52:26 AM, Jérôme Arzel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have an issue when I compile U-Boot for my target machine
> > (P1022DS,
> > 36-bit).
> > Here is the error message:
> > 
> > release.S: Assembler messages:
> > release.S:154: Error: operand out of range (0xfffff144 is not
> > between
> > 0x00000000 and 0x0000ffff)
> > release.S:286: Error: operand out of range (0xfffff144 is not
> > between
> > 0x00000000 and 0x0000ffff)
> > release.S:311: Error: operand out of range (0xfffff140 is not
> > between
> > 0x00000000 and 0x0000ffff)
> > 
> > (release.S is located to arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/release.S)
> > 
> > And here is the code for the first error (line 150):
> > 
> > #define toreset(x) (x - __secondary_start_page + 0xfffff000)
> > 
> >         /* get our PIR to figure out our table entry */
> >         lis     r3,toreset(__spin_table_addr)@h
> >         ori     r3,r3,toreset(__spin_table_addr)@l
> > 
> > I don't really know why it doesn't work, but I think
> > that "ori" is inappropried, the immediate value must be a 16-bit
> > value.
> > 
> > I use GCC 4.7.3, compiled in x86_64 for target
> > powerpc-none-linux-gnuspe.
> > My U-Boot come from the repository, but older versions fail too.
> 
> This appears to be a binutils bug, introduced in 2.23.2.  The
> attached
> test program gives a similar error on 2.23.2, but 2.23.1 is OK.
> 
> I've filed it here:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15557
> 
> -Scott