"unsupported reloc" errors with binutils-2.11.92.0.5 and g++-2.96 on ia64

[H . J . Lu]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:03:15PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> With binutils-2.11.92.0.5 and g++-2.96 we are seeing quite a lot of linker errors 
> in different c++ applications similar to this:
> 
> compiler/AssignStmt.o(.vector<Expr *, allocator<Expr *> >::IA_64.unwind_info.gnu.linkonce.t._M_insert_aux(Expr **, Expr *const &)+0x10): unsupported reloc
> 
> i tried to track this down some more.. it's failing in
> elfNN_ia64_relocate_section in handling the r_type == R_IA64_SEGREL64LSB
> case. The check "if (bfd_is_abs_section (sym_sec->output_section))" is
> failing.
> 
> I don't know what this means, but hope someone else does... 
> 
> The last binutils i had on my system was 2.11.90.0.31 and that worked
> ok...  We also tried gcc-3.0.2 (20010922 cvs snapshot) and that worked 
> in the cases we tried as well.

It looks like a binutils bug. Please provide a small testcase. I will
try to fix it.

Thanks.


H.J.