RFC: using ld 2.14 on irix

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 05:17:10PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > The last time I spoke to you about this, I got the impression that the
> > only problem you'd found was the one we solved by switching relocs
> > against local symbols to be against symbol 0.  Now are you saying that
> > you found this problem with global symbols too?
> 
> Just to make the scenario clear, this is the testcase I had extracted and
> which essentially is the same as Richard Sandiford's gromit.c.
> 
> [ralf@dea tmp]$ cat s.s
>         .data
> bar:    .word   bar + 0x1234
> 
> > And that the versions of binutils and glibc on linux-mips.org are
> > binary incompatible with the rest of the world?  Ugh!
> 
> There is a spec, there are prior implementations and the ABI authors share
> my interpretation.  It couldn't be any clearer where the bug is.  I just
> don't have a fix for anything newer than 2.13.x yet.  And thanks to
> adjusting the symbol to zero the newer versions produce binaries that will
> work for every GNU dynamic linker.

Yes, as Richard said this is actually a different issue - that's not a
global symbol.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer