GNU as 2.14 on IRIX 6: crashes with shared libs

Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Fri Jul 18 18:55:00 GMT 2003


Richard Sandiford writes:

> Thanks for the info.  And: doh!  I just remembered that the native linker
> doesn't like gas's .pdr section.  From what I remember, it drops the section

Right, I saw tons of warnings about them during my IRIX 6 O32 work with
gas, and found now way to disable their generation (or even a clear
indication what they are for).

> itself but keeps the relocations in .rela.pdr.  We therefore get relocations
> against unmapped addresses.

I don't see .rela.pdr sections in the resulting binaries or shared
libraries, only in object files.  Are they folded into the .rel.dyn
section?

	Rainer



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