Linking assembled PIC code with Linux libc library

Hi, i can't link assembled pic code against the libc running my embedded-mips-box under debian, and this is what i do:

bluebox@bluebox:~$ as -al -EL -membedded-pic -mips1 -o prueba."o" prueba."s"

ld -L/usr/lib -lc -EL -o prueba prueba.o
ld: aviso: no se puede encontrar el símbolo de entrada __start; usando por omisión 0000000000400280
prueba.o: En la función `main':
prueba.o(.text+0x8): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GNU_REL16_S2 printf@@GLIBC_2.0

I've been looking everywhere without any luck.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks

PIC != embedded-pic. You shouldn't be using -membedded-pic.

In fact, you shouldn't be using as directly, or ld. Always use GCC to assemble and link, and it will take care of the options for you.

Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

But if I use GCC with my assembler code, and I use a simple 'printf' function, the assembler code I get is totally different than the original one, so I cant debug it.

any other possibility?

thanks,

Sergio

Sounds like you're being surprised by the gcc 3.4 optimization where gcc may replace certain functions such as printf with a whole sequence of calls to more basic stdio functions?

Ralf