Re: ld fails to relocate relative to local symbols?

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde at neoptica dot com>]

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Thanks!  Fixed it.

Can you point me to the document that documents that one?

And yes, it is my own restricted ELF library - for assorted reasons  
we can't use a GPL one, and the alternatives are few.

Thanks again, and I'll close the bug, mea culpa.

Paul

On 31-Jan-06, at 7:43 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:09:18PM -0800, Paul Lalonde wrote:
> > I've just filed a bug, but for anyone who's keen on finding out how I
> > broke it, here's a tgz containing two .o's for AMD64.
> > ld -r success.o succeeds, ld -r fail.o fails.  The files differ in
> > exactly one byte, the change of symbol "mystring" from STB_GLOBAL to
> > STB_LOCAL.
> > It's most likely that I'm violating the ABI in some (not necessarily
> > subtle) way, although the seg fault is disconcerting.
>
> How are you creating these files, anyway?  Your own ELF library?
> fail.o's incorrect: st_info on a symtab section is supposed to be one
> greater than the index of the last local symbol.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery

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