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Re: [Bug] ld aborts linking large ieee file
- From: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan at phys dot uoa dot gr>
- To: "Smith, Gene" <gene dot smith at siemens dot com>
- Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:16:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Bug] ld aborts linking large ieee file
- References: <6391E0672315FB41904F245E7764A6BA02526251@jsc0001e>
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:09:29PM -0500, Smith, Gene wrote:
> Yes, the problems are related and occur only when the 3rd party file is
> linked (with ld) or copied (with objcopy). In both cases (according to the
> debugger) they are having problems with two symbols that appear 1st in the
> symbol table shown with objdump -xD (objdump works ok with the 3rd-p file).
> Here is how it looks:
>
> SYMBOL TABLE:
> 00000000 *ABS* 0020 00 conlist
> 00000000 *ABS* 0021 00 globaltr
> :
How can a symbol be neither local nor global?
ANW, have you tried localize (or globalize) these symbols with objcopy?
Although you wrote that objcopy segfaults, I guess it doesn't always;
it depends on the operation you are asking.
Elias
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