RFH/RFC: ld generating incorrect Elf DT_RELSZ...

[David Daney]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The single R_MIPS_NONE is OK.  I'd forgotten about that.  I think it's
> for IRIX compat.
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:56:43PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> 
>>>But not on the order of 29,000, right?  Just the hundred or so that you
>>>pasted?
>>
>>Correct.
>>
>>It should be noted that my libgcj.so.5 (from gcc-3.4.3) does not suffer 
>>from this problem, but it is quite a bit smaller ( RELSZ= 609600 instead 
>>of 2661784).  Also libgcj.so.? from gcc-4.1 is similarly broken.
> 
> 
> You get to debug the offsets, then.  Someone must have messed up
> reloc_count, or else another section is getting merged into the output
> .rel.dyn section.
> 
> Try with conditional watchpoints on an x86 host.  reloc_count goes up
> as we allocate the section, down to 0, then up as we output
> relocations.  I see no way we could be outputting relocations without
> incrementing it though.
> 

Just to save me a little time, could you tell me which files or 
functions (presumably in bfd)  do this?

David Daney