Kernel long branch support

Hi,
I am getting an illegal instruction fault from the kernel after using the latest linker
which supports long branches (i.e. branches greater then 16M) to compile large shared libraries.
I was wondering if anyone knows if the latest kernels 2.3.51/or 2.3.50 support
long branches, or if anyone is working on long branch support for the kernel.

Thank you,
Ronen Grosman
- e-mail [email protected]

Ronen> Hi, I am getting an illegal instruction fault from the kernel Ronen> after using the latest linker which supports long branches Ronen> (i.e. branches greater then 16M) to compile large shared Ronen> libraries. I was wondering if anyone knows if the latest Ronen> kernels 2.3.51/or 2.3.50 support long branches, or if anyone Ronen> is working on long branch support for the kernel.

The kernel support for "branch long" emulation doesn't exist yet. Patch welcome. ;-)

	--david

We are working on the code to emulate "branch long" instruction and will have the code soon.

Thanks,
Asit

-----Original Message-----
From: David Mosberger [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support

Ronen> Hi, I am getting an illegal instruction fault from the kernel Ronen> after using the latest linker which supports long branches Ronen> (i.e. branches greater then 16M) to compile large shared Ronen> libraries. I was wondering if anyone knows if the latest Ronen> kernels 2.3.51/or 2.3.50 support long branches, or if anyone Ronen> is working on long branch support for the kernel.

The kernel support for "branch long" emulation doesn't exist yet. Patch welcome. ;-)

	--david

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