Relocation overflow when performing bitwise AND (SPARC Assembly)?

Question

I am trying to perform a bitwise AND on a register, as a bitmask to remove the most significant bit (which happens to be bit 16 when counting from 0). However, when I try to compile my code using gcc, it gives me the following error messages:

Assembler messages: 19: Error: relocation overflow

My guess is that this has something to do with the size of the bit mask I am applying, because when I perform the AND with two registers containing small numbers I don't encounter the same error. The code itself looks like,

.global main
main:
save    %sp, -96, %sp

clr %l1
clr     %l2
set 0xffff, %l0
set 0xaaaa8c01, %l4
set 0xff001234, %l5
set 0x13579bdf, %l6
set 0xc8b4ae32, %l7
srl %l4, 31, %l1    
srl %l0, 15, %l2
xor %l1, %l2, %l1
and %l1, 0x1, %l1
sll %l0, 1, %l0
add %l0, %l1, %l0
and %l0, 0xffff, %l0


mov 1, %g1
ta  0

If anyone could offer some insight on how to solve this problem it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

badPanda

Answer 1

The most significant bit is bit 15 (in a 16-bit integer, when bits are zero based).