Linker problem...

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:04PM +0200, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> I tried to find out, when this "behaviour" has been introduced and tracked it down until
> the changes from 2004-10-14 (Alan Modra and H.J. Lu), checking out the version before
> (cvs update -D 2004-10-14: ld-2.15.93 20041013) works as expected, and the following one 
> (cvs update -D 2004-10-15: ld-2.15.93 20041014) fails...
> 
> As the change is quite large and I'm not familiar with the code , I stopped here digging 
> deeper and wanted to ask you for help here as IMHO one of these changes breaks the linker. 

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-10/msg00227.html
"Of note is a completely revised scheme to place orphans according to
their section flags"

I would guess that you have some orphan sections, ie. sections that are
not mentioned in your linker script.  The linker has some freedom in
placing such sections.  Just because they are placed differently does
not necessarily mean the linker is broken.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre