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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:21:43 -0700
From: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
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To: veerasena reddy <veerasena_b@yahoo.co.in>
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Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.18.8 compilation errors with GCC-4.2.1 and binutils-2.17
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veerasena reddy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to compile Linux-2.6.18.8 for MIPS24KE
> processor using cross-compiler built from gcc-4.2.1,
> binutils-2.17 and uClibc-0.9.27. But, the compilation
> failed with below error message ("mips-linux-ld: final
> link failed: Bad value"):
> ================================

The likely cause is:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33755

As indicated in the PR, Richard has a patch that he is testing.  I would 
think that by the time gcc-4.2.3 is released that it would be fixed.

I would recommend using a non-4.2.x version of gcc until the problem is 
fixed.

David Daney

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