[arm-gnu] relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_PREL31 against `.main_mem_2'

[42Bastian]

Hi

> Am using the codesourcery toolchain. The linker exits with the following
> message when the segment main_mem_2 is placed at 0x6C000000: "relocation
> truncated to fit: R_ARM_PREL31 against `.main_mem_2'"
> I tried loading the function address via pointers , but that does not seem
> to matter. This is for a cortex-m4 processor. Why doesn't the the BLX/BX
> get picked to do the branch?
> Appreciate if you can help me out here.

Where does the branch come from ? BLX can only jump a certain number of
bytes wide (21bit IIRC).

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