This is the mail archive of the binutils@sourceware.org mailing list for the binutils project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Binutils 2.28 on PowerPC: dangerous relocation: generic linker can't handle R_PPC_SECTOFF_HA


On 16/05/2019 16:05, Alan Modra wrote:
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:29:48AM +0200, Sebastian Huber wrote:
On 15/05/2019 06:09, Alan Modra wrote:
The source you show is slightly crazy too.  Why use @sectoff when
expecting a SHN_ABS symbol?
It seems the bootloader must be relocatable. What would be the proper way to
work with absolute addresses? Store them in global variables which contain a
abs@fixup relocation?
My point was that sym@sectoff@l and sym@sectoff@ha are exactly the
same as sym@l and sym@ha respectively when sym is SHN_ABS.  It's fine
to use @sectoff with symbols for addresses within output sections, but
symbols representing the size of multiple output sections really
shouldn't be @sectoff.

The problem is that if I change it to sym@ha and sym@l, then I get this assembler error:

    lis    r3,__size@ha
    addi    r3,r3,__size@l

bsps/powerpc/motorola_powerpc/bootloader/head.S: Assembler messages:
bsps/powerpc/motorola_powerpc/bootloader/head.S:151: Error: relocation cannot be done when using -mrelocatable bsps/powerpc/motorola_powerpc/bootloader/head.S:152: Error: relocation cannot be done when using -mrelocatable

--
Sebastian Huber, embedded brains GmbH

Address : Dornierstr. 4, D-82178 Puchheim, Germany
Phone   : +49 89 189 47 41-16
Fax     : +49 89 189 47 41-09
E-Mail  : sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de
PGP     : Public key available on request.

Diese Nachricht ist keine geschäftliche Mitteilung im Sinne des EHUG.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]