Re: Linking problem (b18): "ld: file.o: bad reloc address 0x4 in section `.text'"

[cgf at bbc dot com (Chris Faylor)]

In article <33A6D198.167E@daimi.aau.dk>,
Manmathan Muthukumarapillai  <mannan@daimi.aau.dk> wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>
>Please help me,
>
>I tried to link severel object files, first I linked some of them
>together in one directory to a single file by saying:
>        [e:\test]: ld -r -X -o dira.o dira/*.o
>then I did this:
>        [e:\test]: ld -r -X -o all.o common.o dira.o dirb/*.o
>and got the error:
>        ld: dira.o: bad reloc address 0x4 in section `.text'
>
>Actually I want a function like Microsofts LIB-command, where
>you create a library with different functions used to by other
>C-programs.

I'm sure that others will point out that what you want is actually the
'ar' command.  This is the analog to to the MSVC LIB command.

I believe that the behavior you are seeing with -r -X is a bug, though.
I've had similar problems with -R when I attempt to link objects generated
by MSVC.
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