Group identifier of a comdat group

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Tue Jun 4 18:09:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Jessica Han wrote:
> That's what I figured out too. I checked on IA64 Linux and IA64 HPUX, the
> name field of that particular symbol is always 0, thus the result name
> string is always "".  I verified it with debugging objcopy, group_signture
> always return "". Any ideas?

Sounds like a problem in the object file itself.  Do the group section
header sh_link and sh_info fields make sense, ie. point into the
symbol table?  If they do point at a symbol, then it's a matter of
debugging gas to figure out why the sym is bad.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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