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Re: MIPS/gas bug
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:28:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: MIPS/gas bug
- References: <3FAAF5C1.1060706@avtrex.com>
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:30:41PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> The attached ptrflags.s file causes gas to generate incorrect object
> files. It was generated by a recient gcc3.4 snapshop from ptrflags.C in
> the g++ testsuite.
>
> The failure is in H.J Lu's 2.14.90.0.5 20030722 as well as the 031106
> snapshot that I just built.
>
> Both are configured like this:
>
> ../binutils-031106/configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> --target=mipsisa32el-linux --prefix=/home/mipsel-linux
> '--libdir=${exec_prefix}/mipsel-linux/i386-linux/lib'
>
> The gas command line that creates the bad output is:
>
> mipsel-butest/gas/as-new -EL -32 -v -KPIC -o ptrflags.o ptrflags.s
>
> $ mipsel-linux-readelf -r ptrflags.o
>
> Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x167c contains 35 entries:
> Offset Info Type Sym.Value Sym. Name
> 00000000 00002b05 R_MIPS_HI16 00000000 _gp_disp
> 00000004 00002b06 R_MIPS_LO16 00000000 _gp_disp
> 00000040 00002c0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 __dynamic_cast
> 00000048 00002d09 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTISt9type_info
> 0000004c 00002e09 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTIN10__cxxabiv117__p
> 000000c8 00002b05 R_MIPS_HI16 00000000 _gp_disp
> 000000cc 00002b06 R_MIPS_LO16 00000000 _gp_disp
> 000000ec 00003009 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTIP1A
> 000000f0 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000011c 00003109 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTIPK1A
> 00000120 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000014c 00003209 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTIPV1A
> 00000150 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000017c 00003309 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTIPrP1A
> 00000180 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 000001ac 00003409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTIM1Ai
> 000001b0 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 000001dc 00003509 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 _ZTIPM1Ai
> 000001e0 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000020c 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 00000210 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000023c 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 00000240 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000026c 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 00000270 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000029c 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 000002a0 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 000002cc 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 000002d0 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 000002fc 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 00000300 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000032c 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 00000330 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> 0000035c 00001409 R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro
> 00000360 00002a0b R_MIPS_CALL16 00000000 _Z6expectiRKSt9type_in
> .
> .
> .
>
> The symptom is all of the "R_MIPS_GOT16 00000000 .data.rel.ro"
> relocations. They should all be something similar to _ZTIM1Ai
> _ZTIPM1Ai, etc
>
> Has anybody seen this before?
>
> What is the solution?
Could you explain why it is a problem with the assembler? Here's the
difference I think:
> $L11:
> move $4,$0
> lw $5,%got(_ZTIPM1Ai)($28)
> $L16:
> li $4,16 # 0x10
> lw $5,%got(_ZTIM1Bi)($28)
> .section .gnu.linkonce.d._ZTIPM1Ai,"aw",@progbits
> .align 2
> .type _ZTIPM1Ai, @object
> .size _ZTIPM1Ai, 16
> _ZTIPM1Ai:
> .word _ZTVN10__cxxabiv119__pointer_type_infoE+8
> .section .data.rel.ro,"aw",@progbits
> .align 2
> .type _ZTIM1Bi, @object
> .size _ZTIM1Bi, 20
> _ZTIM1Bi:
There's no reason not to generate a section-relative relocation to
.data.rel.ro, since _ZTM1Bi is in a non-linkonce section and not a weak
symbol.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer