Finding BFD bug

Dave Korn dk@artimi.com
Wed Jun 9 18:05:00 GMT 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of pladow
> Sent: 09 June 2004 19:23

> > "Dave Korn" writes:
> > 
> > > > It suggests that the src_mask field should be 0 rather than
> > > > 0xffffffff.
> > > > 
> > > > Ian
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   Shouldn't partial_inplace be false as well, since the 
> comment seems to
> > > indicate that we're on a RELA target here?  Overall it 
> looks like a
> > > REL-vs-RELA inconsistency between the linker and the 
> assembler to me.
> 
> Well, both changes fixed the problem!  I just hope it doesn't 
> break anything 
> else...


  If "make check" returns identical results before and after the change, you
can be fairly confident that the basic linker functionality is still sound.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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