Use of SHT_GROUP ELF section type by GNU as on IRIX

[Thiemo Seufer]

Albert Chin wrote:
> I'm running into trouble building GCC 4.0.2 on IRIX 6.5.26m with GNU
> as (binutils 2.16.1) and IRIX ld (MIPSpro 7.4.3m). The problem is
> documented here:
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24345
> 
> In short, the IRIX linker is failing with the following error building
> libstdc++.so:
>   ld32: FATAL   2  : Internal: at ../../ld/section_type.c In load_info()
>   unknown section type
> 
> Displaying the section headers of one of the object files, I see:
>   $ elfdump -h .libs/allocator-inst.o
> .libs/allocator-inst.o:
> 
>           **** SECTION  HEADER  TABLE ****
> [No]   Type                  Addr       Offset     Size        Name
>        Link       Info       Adralgn    Entsize    Flags
> 
> [1]    0x11                  0          0x34       0x8         .group
>        43         0x25       0x4        0x4        0x00000000 
> 
> [2]    0x11                  0          0x3c       0x8         .group
>        43         0x26       0x4        0x4        0x00000000 
> ...
> [13]   SHT_PROGBITS          0          0xa0       0           .text
>        0          0          0x10       0          0x00000006 ALLOC EXECINSTR 
> 
> [14]   SHT_PROGBITS          0          0xa0       0           .data
>        0          0          0x10       0          0x00000003 WRITE ALLOC 
> ...
> 
> 
> Looking at config/obj-elf.c, I see the creation of an SHT_GROUP
> section type. Is GNU as on IRIX suppose to be compatible with IRIX ld?

AFAIK gas needs gld on IRIX.


Thiemo