Hello!
When linking the attached files using the command line
ld -q -T bss.lds attention.o libbss.a -o attention.bso
with ld 2.18 targeted for ELF (tested on Linux with version 2.18-1 from Debian,
and on Windows by building binutils 2.18.50 on MinGW with target "i386-pc-elf"),
the first 8 bytes of the section ".bs.server.name" are overwritten with zero.
I.e.,
objdump -s -j .bs.server.name attention.o
gives
Contents of section .bs.server.name:
0000 41747465 6e74696f 6e536967 6e00 AttentionSign.
whereas
objdump -s -j .bs.server.name attention.bso
gives
Contents of section .bs.server.name:
400620 00000000 00000000 6e536967 6e00 ........nSign.
A similar problem occurs with the file "car.o"; in that case the entire contents
of ".bs.server.name" and ".bs.server.service" come out as zero. The section
lengths are correct, however.
Many similar files are linked just fine, but the problem is reproducable with
these specific files, even though it looks pretty random to me. There are no
relocs in the affected sections, so the section contents should stay exactly the
same IMHO.
Please mail me if you want to generate the files yourself.
Thanks,
Sebastian Reichelt
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Summary: Section contents partially overwritten with zero
Product: binutils
Version: 2.18
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: ld
AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: SebastianR at gmx dot de
CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
GCC build triplet: same as host
GCC host triplet: i386-linux-elf (also tested with MinGW)
GCC target triplet: i386-linux-elf and i386-pc-elf
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5522
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