compatibility of (mips ELF) .o files between binutils versions?

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:41:03PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> Well it might be a problem specific to the MIPS port, but even so the
> linker should not seg fault.  It is definitely worth investigating.
> 
> > (I'm not really sure where to even begin debugging this...)
> 
> It appears to be a problem with the relocs.  What does 'objdump -r'
> show for the 2.11.2 assembled binary vs the 2.12.1 assembled binary ?
> 

As I recall, gas/mips 2.11.2 generates really bad files under certain
conditions. I agree ld shouldn't segfault. But I don't expect it will
generate correct results.


H.J.