Help with a compile error on sparc64 needed.

[Marius Strobl]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:12:09PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> sorry when I am OT, but can someone point me in to right direction how to fix:
> 
>   http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/sparc64-5-latest/nmap-3.48_1.log
> 
> The error is:
> 
> cc -c  -I/usr/include -O -pipe  -Wall  [...] nsock_event.c -o nsock_event.o
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:441: Error: relocation overflow
> *** Error code 1
> 
> And I have no sparc machine to test this...
> 

I already sent you the attached patch to work around this GCC bug in
Nmap a while ago.

-------------- next part --------------
--- nsock/src/nsock_event.c.orig	Fri Oct  3 15:33:05 2003
+++ nsock/src/nsock_event.c	Fri Oct  3 15:32:31 2003
@@ -242,8 +242,9 @@
   int type_code = (int) type;
   unsigned long serial = ms->next_event_serial++;
   unsigned long max_serial_allowed;
-  int shiftbits = sizeof(nsock_event_id) * 8 - TYPE_CODE_NUM_BITS;
+  int shiftbits;
   assert(type <= 3);
+  shiftbits = sizeof(nsock_event_id) * 8 - TYPE_CODE_NUM_BITS;
   
   max_serial_allowed = ( 1 << shiftbits ) - 1;
   if (serial == max_serial_allowed ) {