Bug#503675: ffmpeg-debian_3:0.svn20080925-1(ia64/experimental): FTBFS: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output

[Loïc Minier]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > /build/buildd/ffmpeg-debian-0.svn20080925/libavcodec/msmpeg4.c:1068: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL22 against `.bss'
> > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output

 This is specific to ia64; some of the static arrays in this file -- and
 perhaps others -- should be converted to dynamic mallocs instead.  This
 is likely to make the code slower, so probably a patch should
 conditionalize this to low mem stacks architectures, such as ia64.

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Loïc Minier