https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25828
Bug ID: 25828 Summary: nm for pdp11-aout shows symbols undefined or sign-extended to 64 bits Product: binutils Version: 2.35 (HEAD) Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: binutils Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org Reporter: casner at acm dot org Target Milestone: --- Presumably since the creation of the pdp11-aout target 20 years ago, a symbol defined in a linker script that is referenced as a global variable in a source file will be shown as undefined by nm: 00000000 T __start 00000000 T _start 00000000 T main 00000000 t pr14962a.o 00000002 t pr14962b.o 00000000 T start U x Separately, symbols with the MSB set will be shown sign-extended to 64 bits, whereas PDP11 addresses are only 16 bits. 00000000 A DATA_LENGTH 00001000 A DATA_ORIGIN ffffffffffff8000 A TXT_LENGTH 00000100 A TXT_ORIGIN 00001004 D data_end 00001000 T data_start 00001000 D data_symbol 00001000 D fred 00000104 T text_end 00000100 T text_start 00000100 T text_symbol 00000100 t tmpdir/script.o ffffffffffff8100 D tred -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.