Why does ELF/alpha put none-text relocations in .rela.text?

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:44:19AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> When you do
> 
> # gcc -c foo.c
> 
> on ELF/alpha, as will put relocations for ".debug_line" in
> .rela.text. When you do
> 
> # strip --strip-debug foo.o
> # readelf -r foo.o
> 
> you will get
> 
>  00000000  200569c000000006 R_ALPHA_GPDISP        bad symbol index: 200569c0
> 
> How should we fix it?

I think the real problem is ELF/alpha abuses ELF64_R_SYM for the GPDISP
relocations where the symbol index is not really an index into the
symbol table. But the generic part of the ELF linker in BFD assumes
ELF64_R_SYM is a real symbol index. I will see what I can do.


H.J.