Bug: Core dump in elf32-arm.c:3858:bfd_elf32_arm_vfp11_fix_veneer_locations arm-elf-ld 2.18

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Shaun,

> I can
> understand that a non-ARM object file with a text section is rather
> nonsensical, but it seems to me that the linker should be able to deal
> with a non-ARM object file if it only contains a data section, as is
> the case with the output of objcopy -Ibinary -Oelf. Are you arguing
> that the above shouldn't work,

No, in theory it should work.

> or that it doesn't work at the moment due to technical limitations?

Correct.  (Please feel free to submit a patch to remove these technical 
limitations if you so wish.  Although it will be quite a lot of work :-)

Cheers
   Nick