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Re: [PATCH] MIPS/ld: Calculate DT_RELSZ correctly.
- From: Thiemo Seufer <ths at networkno dot de>
- To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 14:42:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS/ld: Calculate DT_RELSZ correctly.
- References: <42924ED1.9080201@avtrex.com>
David Daney wrote:
> As outlined in this thread:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-05/msg00624.html
>
> The 2.16 ld cannot correctly link the libgcj component of gcc 4.0.0.
>
> The problem is that DT_RELSZ was being calculated before all of the
> relocations had been added to the dynamic relocations section. This
> resulted in a value of DT_RELSZ that was too small. The result was that
> the runtime loader did not do all the relocations that were needed.
>
>
> 2005-05-23 David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
>
> * elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_finish_dynamic_sections): Move
> calculation of DT_RELSZ to occur after all dynamic relocations
> are created.
>
>
> Tested on the CVS HEAD mipsel-linux cross running on i686-pc-linux-gnu
> with make -k check showing regressions.
>
> O.K. to commit? Should this go on the 2.16 branch as well?
Ok.
Thiemo