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| <h3 class="section">4.11 <code>ld</code> and the Altera Nios II</h3> |
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| <p>Call and immediate jump instructions on Nios II processors are limited to |
| transferring control to addresses in the same 256MB memory segment, |
| which may result in <code>ld</code> giving |
| ‘<samp>relocation truncated to fit</samp>’ errors with very large programs. |
| The command-line option <samp>--relax</samp> enables the generation of |
| trampolines that can access the entire 32-bit address space for calls |
| outside the normal <code>call</code> and <code>jmpi</code> address range. These |
| trampolines are inserted at section boundaries, so may not themselves |
| be reachable if an input section and its associated call trampolines are |
| larger than 256MB. |
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| <p>The <samp>--relax</samp> option is enabled by default unless <samp>-r</samp> |
| is also specified. You can disable trampoline generation by using the |
| <samp>--no-relax</samp> linker option. You can also disable this optimization |
| locally by using the ‘<samp>set .noat</samp>’ directive in assembly-language |
| source files, as the linker-inserted trampolines use the <code>at</code> |
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| relaxation options, and that using the GNU assembler’s <samp>-relax-all</samp> |
| option interferes with the linker’s more selective call instruction relaxation. |
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