What changed in ld?

[Andrew Haley]

G. Adam Stanislav writes:
 > At 10:57 01-06-2001 -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
 > >On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:50:28PM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
 > >> Hello, I posted this in the FreeBSD hackers list and was referred
 > >> to you. I was told that when I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.3, I also
 > >> upgraded binutils from 2.9.1 to 2.10.1.
 > >> 
 > >> I am the author of the assembly language tutorial for FreeBSD
 > >> ( http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/ ), but something has changed in ld
 > >> that causes programs assembled with nasm 0.98 and linked with ld
 > >
 > >Are you using ELF? nasm usually generates bad ELF object files.
 > 
 > Yes, I'm using elf. But I did not have any problem when using the ld
 > from binutils 2.9.1. I was using the same version of nasm.

Read the NASM page.  It says:

http://www.web-sites.co.uk/nasm/bugs.html

"Relocations between multiple code segments in ELF are wrong. NASM's
ELF files don't conform to the ELF standard properly. "

 > What can I do?

I would have thought it would be a good time to fix nasm.

Andrew.