Re: SIGSEGV in ld at elflink.h:5500

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 02:06:50AM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > So, what do we do?  We have have a reference in the data section
> > > to a local label in a function that has been deleted.  On hppa-linux,
> > > the above data is in .eh_frame.  Is it somehow special?
> > 
> > OK, so it's likely a gcc bug.  You want the eh data in .eh_frame, as
> > .eh_frame is special.  See bfd/elflink.h:elf_bfd_discard_info.
> 
> I put the eh data into .eh_frame.  However, I still get a seg fault
> at the same spot although the symbol and section have changed.  It
> looks as if the code figured out that the reloc symbol was deleted
> but still the fault.

Take a look at what's happening at elf64-hppa.c:1514 under gdb.
I suspect you have forced-local syms being added as local dynamic
syms.  Bad.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre