[arm-gnu] access beyond end of merged section

["simon.kallweit@xxxxxxxxx" <simon.kallweit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I'm trying to use the latest codesourcery arm-eabi toolchain to compile 
eCos for an stm32 (cortex-m3). I get a few strange link failures. The 
resulting code crashes, for some functions. Inspecting the assembler 
output and stepping with gdb, revealed for example that a wrong pointer 
to a constant string literal was loaded to a register, therefore 
crashing printf.
Code is compiled using the following compiler switches:

-c -finline-limit=7000 -mthumb -mcpu=cortex-m3 -Wall -Wpointer-arith 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wundef -g -O2 -ffunction-sections 
-fdata-sections -fno-exceptions -fno-use-cxa-atexit -Wno-write-strings -Wp
I have adapted the codesourcery linker scripts to work with ecos, 
nothing exceptional here.
Here the linker errors I get:

arm-none-eabi-gcc -mthumb -mcpu=cortex-m3 -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-static 
-g -nostdlib -L/home/simon/ecos/build/stm32/redboot/build/install/lib 
-Ttarget.ld -o 
/home/simon/ecos/build/stm32/redboot/build/install/bin/redboot.elf 
/home/simon/ecos/build/stm32/redboot/build/install/lib/version.o
/home/simon/ecos/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.2.3/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: 
/home/simon/ecos/build/stm32/redboot/build/install/lib/extras.o: access 
beyond end of merged section (-32599)
/home/simon/ecos/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.2.3/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: 
/home/simon/ecos/build/stm32/redboot/build/install/lib/extras.o: access 
beyond end of merged section (-32603)
/home/simon/ecos/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.2.3/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: 
/home/simon/ecos/build/stm32/redboot/build/install/lib/extras.o: access 
beyond end of merged section (-32603)
/home/simon/ecos/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.2.3/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: 
/home/simon/ecos/build/stm32/redboot/build/install/lib/extras.o: access 
beyond end of merged section (-32599)
Any ideas what could go wrong here?

Best regards
Simon