Re: Bug in gas generating sh PIC, or is it me?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:43:14PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Graeme Peterson wrote:
> >I think I may have found a bug in the sh PIC stuff in gas.  Or I may have 
> >a bug in the QNX sh-nto support.  Not sure which, and so this e-mail.  ;-)
> >
> >Basically it looks like an "off by 2" bug to me.  If I have a source
> >file which I compile PIC into a shared object, any function calls from
> >that shared object into other PIC code blows up.  I can call from main()
> >into the shared object fine if the .so does not call any other PIC 
> >code, like printf(), or other functions in the same .so.
> >
> >I think the following assembly gets converted to values that are 2 bigger
> >than they used to be with binutils-2.10.1 ...
> 
> For what it's worth, a coworker found that on sh4,
> binutils as shipped by Hard Hat 2.0, and also
> vanilla binutils 2.13, caused problems with shared libraries.
> binutils 2.13.1 works fine.
> 
> That's neither here nor there, I suppose, but I just wanted
> to point out all was not perfect with the older binutils on sh4.

That's a different problem - and I think that I'll pull this new fix in
for 2.13.2, since I slipped on getting it out before I left for
Thanksgiving.  HH2.0's ought to have worked but I certainly don't care
enough to find out why it didn't if 2.13.1 works :)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer