Re: [Madwifi-devel] {standardinput}:7260: Error: Branch out of range

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:36 -0400, Louay Sakka wrote:
> Yes I remember,  you are right, unfortunately  my makefile experience
> are little, but I am confident that it is safe to use for MIPS.

P.S. I wrote a script that test MadWifi for all mips default configs
included in the kernel sources.  I tried the Ubiquity toolchain (gcc
3.3.3,  binutils  2.14.90.0.6):
http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/sdk/toolchain-mips-ls_0.1-1.deb

I also tested a toolchain I compiled using buildroot (gcc 4.3.3,
binutils 2.19.1).

I could not reproduce the "Branch out of range" error.  I found many
other issues, which I fixed in Subversion.  I also ran that script on
PowerPC and ARM configs and fixed more issues.

I'm quite sure now that "Branch out of range" is a compiler bug.  I'm
not going to work around compiler bugs by such invasive changes as
adding an undocumented assembler option.

If you have a buggy compiler, please use another compiler.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin