objcopy test failure on mips-linux

Ralf Baechle ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Wed Mar 15 16:12:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:36:15AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> This has been introduced by Mark Mitchel in revision 1.12 of the file:
> 1999-07-01  Mark Mitchell  <mark@codesourcery.com>
> 
>        * elf32-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections): Use
>         _bfd_elf_init_reloc_shdr to initialize rel_hdr2.
> 
> 
> Mark, can you comment on this, please?  This part doesn't look correct
> to me (read the whole thread for details, I can send it if you need
> it).  It breaks objcopy and creates empty rea.text sections :-(.

Afair N32 and 64 ABI files use both kinds of relocations.

(Should check the docs but they're about 10000km away ...)

  Ralf


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