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Re: absolute relocation in TextSegment failed when loading a shared lib on arm7


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:37:35PM +0100, chris schlund wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I think there is a problem with the handling of absolute relocations in
>>text segment of shared libraries in glibc when using arm7 controller.
>>
>>In our example there should be an absolute relocation on label "rel".
>>The relocation table for the library seems to be ok:
>>
>>RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.text]:
>>OFFSET   TYPE              VALUE
>>00000008 R_ARM_PC24        .text
>>00000010 R_ARM_ABS32       a_function
> 
> 
> Don't do that then!  I don't know how you managed to generate this, but
> (A) you should use PIC code to build shared libraries, which will
> prevent R_ARM_ABS32, and (B) the linker should not output R_ARM_PC24
> for shared libraries.
> 
> 
>>As far as I can see the format of the shared library is ok (see below
>>for more info). thats why i think this is a glibc problem.
> 
> 
> No, your shared library is broken; you are missing a DT_TEXTREL tag in
> the dynamic section.  Upgrade binutils to fix this.
> 

Hi Daniel,

thanks for your support.
Upgrading from binutils-2.15 to 2.16 fixed all our problems.

greetings
christian


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