Re: Linker errors when building ADATE with amd64

Florian Weimer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ml.mlton.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
* Lars Magnusson:

> We allocate a huge array of words (uint64_t[400000000]). Why this
> makes the linker fail I'm not sure, but I thought it was best to let
> you guys know.

amd64 uses 32-bit relocations by default.  If you have such a large
value in your data segment, parts of it will not be reachable by the
program.

I don't think there is a full 64 bit ABI for GNU/Linux.
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