Re: PATCH: PR ld/10337: strip breaks statically linked binaries with .rela.plt section

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Alan Modra<amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:57:20AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> 2. We use
>>
>> hdr->sh_link != elf_onesymtab (abfd)
>>
>> to check if sh_link points to the main symbol table. But SHN_UNDEF
>> will never be the main symbol table.
>>
>> This patch fixes it with a testcase. I will check it in as an obvious
>> fix.
>
> I think this change is wrong. ?If you treat relocation sections as
> normal sections then you lose all the special BFD processing of
> relocs. ?For example, objcopy --adjust-vma on an executable will not
> modify reloc addresses for you. ?How hard is it to support reloc
> sections with no associated symbol table?
>

Do you have a testcase? How does "objcopy --adjust-vma"
work without relocation info? All the addresses in executable
will be wrong.


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H.J.