section .init_array not working on ppc32
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Mar 13 11:19:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> I'm not sure if that is a binutils or gcc bug, testcase is from glibc
> configure:
>
> nectarine:~# gcc -o conftest conftest.c -static -nostartfiles -nostdlib
> nectarine:~# ./conftest
> Segmentation fault
> nectarine:~# cat conftest.c
> int _start (void) { return 0; }
> int __start (void) { return 0; }
> int foo (void) { return 1; }
> int (*fp) (void) __attribute__ ((section (".init_array"))) = foo;
It's a glibc configure bug. You can make this obvious by reducing
your conftest.c to just the first line, when the testcase compiles
and links to just
_start:
li r3,0
blr
Since lr is initialized by the kernel to zero, the blr jumps to
zero. Boom.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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