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From: gargulak@convex.com (Tom Gargulak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: ld error msg
Message-ID: <gargulak.651424524@convex>
Date: 23 Aug 90 15:15:24 GMT
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I am getting the following error message when I use the MIPS link editor (ld).

(name.o): R_GPREL relocation entry with no global pointer reference

The source which is being compiled is C.  I noticed that it happens to
files that have string constants (i.e. "my string").  If I edit the .s
file after compiling with -S and change the .sdata section containing the 
string to .data the ld error goes away.

Any Ideas?

What does this error message mean?

Thanks,
Tom