Wrong string address

[H.J. Lu]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Halip Ilie <lupuroshu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello. I'm trying to compile geezer's OS dev examples (http://files.osdev.org/mirrors/geezer/osd/code/osd.zip), with gcc 4.4.2 and binutils 2.20, both compiled with Cygwin and targetting i586-elf (--target=i586-elf), on a Win XP SP3.
>
> The problem is that in the resulting binary, the addresses of strings are wrong. Here's what I mean (in the first example, it only prints 2 strings on the screen, memcpy is used to copy bytes in the video memory):
>  10011a:    6a 20                    push   $0x20
>  10011c:    68 60 81 04 08           push   $0x8048160
>  100121:    ff 75 fc                 pushl  -0x4(%ebp)
>  100124:    e8 6a ff ff ff           call   100093 <memcpy>
> // .......
>  10012e:    68 a0 81 04 08           push   $0x80481a0
> //........
>  10013b:    50                       push   %eax
>  10013c:    e8 52 ff ff ff           call   100093 <memcpy>
> These two: 0x8048160 and 0x80481a0 should be the addresses of two strings. But the correct addresses are actually at 0x100160 and 0x1001a0. With MinGW, the output is correct, and tried cross-compiling it's binutils-src package, with the same result.
>

Please open a bug report with a testcase.

Thanks.


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H.J.