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Re: ld fails to relocate relative to local symbols?

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:09:18PM -0800, Paul Lalonde wrote:
> I've just filed a bug, but for anyone who's keen on finding out how I  
> broke it, here's a tgz containing two .o's for AMD64.
> ld -r success.o succeeds, ld -r fail.o fails.  The files differ in  
> exactly one byte, the change of symbol "mystring" from STB_GLOBAL to  
> STB_LOCAL.
> It's most likely that I'm violating the ABI in some (not necessarily  
> subtle) way, although the seg fault is disconcerting.

How are you creating these files, anyway?  Your own ELF library?
fail.o's incorrect: st_info on a symtab section is supposed to be one
greater than the index of the last local symbol.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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