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Re: Objdump crash on prelinked ARM binaries
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:41:36PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> > arm-linux targets only provide elf_info_to_howto_rel. Then, when
> > objdump finds Rela relocations in a prelinked object file, it
> > dereferences a NULL pointer trying to call ebd->elf_info_to_howto.
> > Will it break anything to always provide both elf_info_to_howto
> > functions?
>
> Probably. Why are Rela relocations being encountered anyway ?
The prelinking process converts REL sections to RELA.
> At the very least objdump should check ebd->elf_info_to_howto and
> issue an error message, rather than seg faulting.
Hmm, yes. Well, I'm going to try defining both and see if it does
anything to testsuite results...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer