On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 01:48:45PM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
When ocamlopt is used with binutils 2.35 to link an executable, we
now
get warnings that look like this:
/usr/bin/ld: tests/test_topsort.o: warning: relocation in read-only
section `.text'
/usr/bin/ld: warning: creating DT_TEXTREL in a PIE
32 bit is an architectural problem for OCaml. Specifically because of
how the GC block headers are implemented it limits arrays / strings to
a maximum of 4M entries / 4M bytes, which was probably fine back in
the day but is unreasonably small today. [1]
So if something OCaml-related fails on i686, it's not something we
should worry about. IMHO ExcludeArch %{ix86} and move on.
Rich.
[1] This is also the reason why multilib is completely irrelevant to OCaml
(and another reason why multilib should die).
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