At 07:17 PM 8/15/2000 -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>: Well, gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> has had problems. He made
>: prototypes of all kernel functions with __attribute__ ((long-call)), and
>: made an lkm. He was still left with truncated references to memcpy - the
>: module still had it as an external symbol, and had used the too-small
>: branch option.
>
>If it's used as a command-line option, it should affect all references (so
>long as the implementation is written properly).

Digital UNIX had a similar problem and changed the linker so that it could
generate small "intermediate jumps" to bridge the displacement problem.
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