IA64 linker is totally broken (Re: PATCH: ELF linker is broken)

[H. J. Lu]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:38:25AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:02:14PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > 	* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_link_create_dynamic_sections): Discard
> > 	previous "_DYNAMIC" before creating the new one.
> 
> I'll be commiting a patch that looks similar to this one in a few
> minutes.
> 

Alan,

I have told you that your patch

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-01/msg00529.html

doesn't work on ia64:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-01/msg00561.html

Now I got

FAIL: bootstrap
FAIL: bootstrap with strip
FAIL: bootstrap with --traditional-format
FAIL: bootstrap with --no-keep-memory
FAIL: bootstrap with --relax
FAIL: vers23d
FAIL: vers23
FAIL: visibility (hidden_normal)
FAIL: visibility (hidden_normal) (PIC main)
FAIL: visibility (protected)
FAIL: visibility (protected) (PIC main)
FAIL: visibility (protected_undef_def)
FAIL: visibility (protected_undef_def) (PIC main)
FAIL: visibility (normal)
FAIL: visibility (normal) (PIC main)

on Linux/ia64 with

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-02/msg00005.html


H.J.