https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26080
--- Comment #6 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> --- (In reply to Maciej W. Rozycki from comment #5) > (In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #2) > > > Your statement makes sense to me, however silently discarding relocations > > > against an existing symbol from a debug section makes me nervous as to > > > the impact on debugging. Would you be able to provide a backing > > > quotation from the relevant standard (DWARF, likely)? > > > > This is very typical for symbol addresses in debug info in shared library. > > Debuggers can find symbol addresses at run-time by other meanings. > Right, it makes no sense to produce a dynamic relocation for a reference > from a !SEC_ALLOC section, as it won't be relocated at run time anyway. > > Can the bfd/elfxx-mips.c part of commit 21d790b94321 ("MIPS/BFD: Don't > make debug section relocs dynamic"), > <https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-09/msg00216.html>, be reverted > as a part of your change? I suspect it might become dead code now. That piece of code has been removed by commit c5d6fa4495dd20cc44698346f102fd7702fd601d Author: Richard Sandiford <rdsandif...@googlemail.com> Date: Sun Oct 13 10:03:22 2013 +0000 bfd/ * elfxx-mips.c (mips_use_local_got_p): New function. (mips_elf_count_got_symbols, mips_elf_calculate_relocation): Use it. (_bfd_mips_elf_check_relocs): Set pointer_equality_needed for GOT and absolute references. It has been changed to /* Set CONSTRAIN_SYMBOL_P if we need to take the relocation into account when deciding how to define the symbol. Relocations in nonallocatable sections such as .pdr and .debug* should have no effect. */ constrain_symbol_p = ((sec->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0); -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.