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Re: powepc64le gold linking problem
- From: Jay Foad <jay dot foad at gmail dot com>
- To: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:15:48 +0000
- Subject: Re: powepc64le gold linking problem
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On 24 November 2014 at 23:09, Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 08:39 +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
>> The above code is finding the st_other bits in the symbol definition.
>> The generic BFD linker doesn't handle merging st_other, or anything
>> else ELF specific.
>
> It looks like Uli just fixed this:
>
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20141124/245979.html
Yes (thanks Uli!) but we don't understand why ld.bfd seemed to
tolerate the broken .o files being generated by Clang before it was
fixed.
ld.bfd linked them into an executable that worked. ld.gold linked them
into an executable that crashed.
Jay.