Re: [Bug gas/1433] IA64 assembler generates bad 2.6.9 Linux kernel.

2005-10-06 Thread Jim Wilson
hat slot the assembler uses for the tag, so yes it will work for both the old and new assemblers. I don't know if it will fix the kernel. You will have to try it. It looks like it will fix the one problem you identified. There could be other problems, though it seems unlikely. -- Jim Wilson,

Re: [Bug gas/1434] IA64 assembler generates different debug info

2005-10-06 Thread Jim Wilson
iced the debug info was different. In that case, the answer is yes it is different, and the difference is accidental, however, since the old debug info was technically wrong, I think we should keep the new behaviour. And yes, this is the same problem as PR 1433. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools

Re: [Bug ld/3191] Dwarf 2 reader in linker doesn't suppor DW_FORM_ref_addr

2006-09-20 Thread Jim Wilson
as I don't know how to reproduce the failure. I don't understand why this hasn't come up before. Also, it isn't clear what this has to do with the further information you have provided about multiple debug_info sections. -- Jim Wilson, GNU To

Re: [Bug binutils/3276] New: Alignment error with static const variable in inline function

2006-09-28 Thread Jim Wilson
OS (i.e. the loader) that isn't respecting the alignment. I tried this on an i386-cygwin system, and it looked OK to me. The rdata section has the right alignment, and the program worked. I didn't do this with binutils-2.17 though. I used the one I already had. -- Jim Wilson, GNU

Re: Error: can't resolve `.hcu.uncommon_code' {.hcu.uncommon_code section} - `.LFB17' {.text section}

2007-04-21 Thread Jim Wilson
n and end it in another section. It looks like you are trying to do some complicated (and probably fragile) section switching stuff in a C function using gcc extended asms, and that there is an unbalanced section switch somewhere. Or maybe gcc optimization is breaking your code. -- Jim Wilson,

Re: Error: can't resolve `.hcu.uncommon_code' {.hcu.uncommon_code section} - `.LFB17' {.text section}

2007-04-23 Thread Jim Wilson
o contain branches. You may need to store it in a static variable, and add a goto *labeladdr someplace. Note that use of &&label confuses the CFG, effectively disabling some optimizations, which means that you may lose performance when you do this. I think you shou

Re: [Bug binutils/4791] etc/standards.texi: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info

2007-08-01 Thread Jim Wilson
ugh I didn't look at this very closely. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils

Re: [Bug binutils/4791] etc/standards.texi: @strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info

2007-08-01 Thread Jim Wilson
s repository for this project from there, under Development Tools. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils

Re: gas for itanium: ia64-ic.tbl: dependency bug due to error in the itanium specification

2007-08-03 Thread Jim Wilson
-linux host and checked in. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com 2007-08-03 James E. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * ia64-gen.c: (main): Add missing newline to copyright message. * ia64-ic.tbl (fp-non-arith): Add xmpy. * ia64-asmtab.c:

Re: Errors in the opcodes-2.17.90 PO file

2007-09-26 Thread Jim Wilson
des/ia64-gen.c:1556: warning: unknown conversion type character 0xa in format I checked in the following patch to fix this. I regenerated ia64-asmtab.c and verified that there was no change to it, and hence no changes to any installed binaries. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.

Re: cannot restore segment prot after reloc

2008-03-12 Thread Jim Wilson
Paul Turner wrote: What does this mean "cannot restore segment prot after reloc? The message is from the dynamic linker, which is part of glibc. See the glibc file elf/dl-reloc.c. It means that you have a read-only section (like text) that contains relocs that require modifying the read-on

Re: Question about windows vista

2008-03-23 Thread Jim Wilson
Daniel Lopes wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with minGW.The problem is that i'm trying to install the program in the windows vista and almost in the middle of the install it stops .The last two messages are : "gzread: incomplete block read." "error: failure reading from tarball.".I think that th

Re: Question about windows vista

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson wrote: The GCC developers Sorry, that should be "Binutils developers" not "GCC developers". I got my mailing lists confused. Otherwise the info is accurate. Jim ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org

Re: GNU Assembler (ARMv8 - Raspberry Pi 3)

2016-04-13 Thread Jim Wilson
On 04/12/2016 06:55 AM, Pervin, William wrote: The new Raspberry Pi 3 has a 64-bit ARMv8 processor (WiFi, Bluetooth, C, Python, Mathematica, FreeOffice, etc. all free with the still US$35 board!) Except that it ships with a 32-bit/armv7 kernel and user space, and you can't run 64-bit/armv8 cod

Re: ld: once multiple symbol definitions are allowed, both definitions end up in the executable

2017-01-11 Thread Jim Wilson
On 01/11/2017 01:49 AM, Pavel Shishpor wrote: Could please someone advice is it a bug or a feature when we get both bodies of the functions with the same name in the executable once multiple symbol definitions are allowed? Here is the example showing the behavior: The only thing that the --allo

Re: ld: once multiple symbol definitions are allowed, both definitions end up in the executable

2017-01-17 Thread Jim Wilson
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Pavel Shishpor wrote: > Thanks a lot for the answer: it put me on the right track. The > '-ffunction-sections' option works OK on toy examples though GNU linker > crashed when I tried the following on real-life object files compiled with > -ffunction-sections and -

Re: "-flto -O2" shouln't opt out "undefined reference" error

2017-01-17 Thread Jim Wilson
On 01/16/2017 10:32 AM, Xuefer wrote: without -flto or without -O2 produce good (expected) result: configure:5332: checking for dlsym ... It isn't the linker that is the problem here. It is the compiler. But it isn't a compiler bug. An optimizing compiler is

Re: "-flto -O2" shouln't opt out "undefined reference" error

2017-01-20 Thread Jim Wilson
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Xuefer wrote: > volatile: i tried already with clang/llvm it worked. > > i'm using gentoo linux, trying to emerge everything with -flto. i'm not sure > if i understand linker/compiler bug or not a bug, i wonder how many script > is affected by this issue. OK, if y

Re: relocation information disappears

2017-04-07 Thread Jim Wilson
On 04/06/2017 04:20 AM, Katsuya TANAKA wrote: # ~/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-gcc -march=armv7-a -o w w.c ~/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-readelf -r w There is no "debug_f" symbol. Why not? The value of a weak symbol is evalu

Re: FW: objdump says 'no recognized debugging informatio'

2008-07-02 Thread Jim Wilson
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: Sharath Manjunatha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: And I am using the object compiled with 345 compiler. I don't know what that compiler is. That would be a Cisco gcc-3.4.5 release with some patches. Not that it really matters. Sharath, you can use readelf -w (aka read