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Re: Objdump crash on prelinked ARM binaries
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:55:53AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:41:36PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > > arm-linux targets only provide elf_info_to_howto_rel. Then, when
> > > objdump finds Rela relocations in a prelinked object file, it
> > > dereferences a NULL pointer trying to call ebd->elf_info_to_howto.
> > > Will it break anything to always provide both elf_info_to_howto
> > > functions?
> >
> > Probably. Why are Rela relocations being encountered anyway ?
>
> The prelinking process converts REL sections to RELA.
Not always, only if relocations which make use of the addend are used.
Jakub