[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-05-21 Thread evandro at yahoo dot com
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-05-21 21:35 --- Created an attachment (id=2750) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2750&action=view) Patch providing the user with a choice. Please, review this patch that allows the user to choose between as

[Bug ld/6511] segmentation fault building final object

2008-05-21 Thread frediano dot ziglio at vodafone dot com
--- Additional Comments From frediano dot ziglio at vodafone dot com 2008-05-21 15:26 --- Created an attachment (id=2749) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2749&action=view) object files from my gcc version result from hppa64-hp-hpux11.00-gcc -O2 -c ctutil.c && hppa

[Bug ld/6511] segmentation fault building final object

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 15:17 --- Subject: Re: segmentation fault building final object Hi Frediano, > Can I send binary object files ?? They are quite small (about 1 kb) Sure - put them in a tarball and I'll see what I can do. Cheers Nick

Re: [Bug ld/6511] segmentation fault building final object

2008-05-21 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Frediano, Can I send binary object files ?? They are quite small (about 1 kb) Sure - put them in a tarball and I'll see what I can do. Cheers Nick ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-

[Bug ld/6511] segmentation fault building final object

2008-05-21 Thread frediano dot ziglio at vodafone dot com
--- Additional Comments From frediano dot ziglio at vodafone dot com 2008-05-21 14:23 --- I tried the patch. It just move the problem but it core after some while... I tried to produce a test case but after three hours I got two c files that make ld core only if compiled with some parame

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-05-21 Thread evandro at yahoo dot com
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-05-21 14:01 --- I think that the choice should be available. I'll craft it up in a moment. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6430 --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list f

[Bug ld/6519] __start_SECNAME undocumented

2008-05-21 Thread drow at sources dot redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From drow at sources dot redhat dot com 2008-05-21 12:23 --- Subject: Re: __start_SECNAME undocumented On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:10:51PM -, nickc at redhat dot com wrote: > Tell you what - I'll check in the change to the manual as-is and add an > addendum

[Bug ld/6519] __start_SECNAME undocumented

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 12:17 --- Patch checked in. -- What|Removed |Added Status|WAITING |RESOLVED

[Bug ld/6519] __start_SECNAME undocumented

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 12:10 --- Subject: Re: __start_SECNAME undocumented Hi Daniel, > Meanwhile, for this bug. I'm not sure about editing the NEWS entry since the > current behavior may be more recent than 2.6. But the manual change looks >

Re: [Bug ld/6519] __start_SECNAME undocumented

2008-05-21 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Daniel, Meanwhile, for this bug. I'm not sure about editing the NEWS entry since the current behavior may be more recent than 2.6. But the manual change looks perfect to me. Tell you what - I'll check in the change to the manual as-is and add an addendum to the NEWS entry describing how

[Bug ld/6519] __start_SECNAME undocumented

2008-05-21 Thread drow at sources dot redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From drow at sources dot redhat dot com 2008-05-21 12:07 --- I didn't realize this was only done for orphaned sections. I suppose it's harder to do for things mentioned in the linker script, and there's an obvious way to do it manually - in keeping with the verbo

[Bug binutils/868] bfd leaks memory in several places

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 12:04 --- Hi Andre, Thanks for the additional patch. I have now applied it to the sources. Cheers Nick -- What|Removed |Added -

[Bug ld/6019] [avr] avr-ld --relax requires --gc-sections

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 11:23 --- Hi Eric, Please can you provide a test case for this ? Cheers Nick -- What|Removed |Added

[Bug ld/6446] Handling of EF_FRV_PIC

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 10:34 --- Subject: Re: New: Handling of EF_FRV_PIC Hi Guys, > Another bug found by inspection. The ABI says: > > The linker should warn and clear EF_FRV_PIC when linking > FDPIC binaries if it finds any inter-segment re

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 11:00 --- Hi Evandro, Right - I have checked in your documentation patch. (Sorry about the delay in getting to this). Do you have a patch to implement the new user-choice-of-sorting algorithm, or is there really no ne

[Bug ld/6446] Handling of EF_FRV_PIC

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 10:32 --- Created an attachment (id=2748) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2748&action=view) Set EF_FRV_PIC by default (for FDPIC). Clear it if any inter-segment relocations are found -- http://so

[Bug binutils/6483] objdump -g does not understand the debug info

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 10:03 --- Created an attachment (id=2747) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2747&action=view) Allow -g to fall back on -W. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6483 --- You are rec

[Bug binutils/6483] objdump -g does not understand the debug info

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 10:05 --- Hi Chris, I assume that your objection is that you feel that the -g command line option should fall back on displaying DWARF debug information if no STABS debug information is found ? If so then please could yo

[Bug ld/2834] Linker reports error "X referenced in section '.rodata' of foo.o: defined in discarded section X of foo.o" with g++ 3.3

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 09:43 --- Hi Bert, If you need to link objects compiled with an old (unfixed) gcc, why not use an old set of binutils as well ? The problem with trying to patch the current binutils is that essentially it would be to s

[Bug ld/6511] segmentation fault building final object

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 09:10 --- Hi Frediano, It would be very helpful if you could submit a small test case that reproduces the problem for us. In the meantime I have uploaded a small patch which adds a check for a NULL return from elf_link

[Bug ld/6511] segmentation fault building final object

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 09:09 --- Created an attachment (id=2746) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2746&action=view) Check for a NULL return from elf_link_hash_lookup -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6511

[Bug ld/6519] __start_SECNAME undocumented

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 09:03 --- Hi Daniel, Well the NEWS entry is wrong in two respects. Firstly the linker does not just generate the symbols, it PROVIDEs them. So if they are not used elsewhere in the executable they will not be entered in

[Bug ld/6519] __start_SECNAME undocumented

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 09:00 --- Created an attachment (id=2745) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2745&action=view) Document the linker's ability to generate section start and end symbols -- http://sourceware.org/bugzill