Re: GNU hash-style compatibility problem on x86_64

[Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip dot com dot au>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:56:38AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:47:47AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > Well, it sounds like a bug in binutils 2.17. There are so many of them
> > and they have been fixed in the current binutils. I don't want to spend
> > time on it unless it is reproducible in the current binutils.
> 
> But wasn't the point of --hash-style=both to be compatible with older
> tools?

Yes, that was my understanding too and the main reason for my report. Roland
mentioned back-compat issues in this LKML posting:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/26/262

but admittedly he only touches on dynamic linkers, and of course he was
talking in the context of kernel vDSO.

> At a guess this has to do with the unrecognized shdr type.

I can understand HJ's response in that there isn't much incentive to fix
bugs in an old binutils release, but I was kind of hoping one of the experts
here might be able to pinpoint the problem and produce a minimal patch.

Regards
Greg