Thread: Help understanding error message

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    Question Help understanding error message

    I'm getting this error message

    Code:
    /usr/bin/ld: ./gz_obj/gzip.o: bad reloc symbol index (0x130000 >= 0x90) for offset 0x100000a in section `.text'
    ./gz_obj/gzip.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
    I'm not sure of what additional info is relevant for this.
    I'm using pre-compiled object files, one of them is gzip.0 Can this be an error in that file that is not related to my code? Or am I linking it wrong maybe?
    Here is the Makefile
    Code:
    FLAGS  = -Wall -g -std=c99 -lpthread -D_REENTRANT -lrt -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600
    CC     = gcc
    p4.c aux_functions.c semlib.c aux_functions.h semlib.h myfs_aux.c myfs_aux.h
            ${CC} ${FLAGS} -lm -o p4 p4.c aux_functions.c semlib.c myfs_aux.c ./des_obj/*.o ./gz_obj/*.o ./ham_obj/*.o

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    Seems to me like you got the wrong library for your architecture.
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    Although I've never experienced this error, it smells to me like the gzip.o object file might be corrupt.

    A relocatable address is an address that has to be changed by the LOADER when the program is brought into memory.
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