PR11375, powerpc64 segfault in call_gmon_start
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 10:12:00 GMT 2010
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:59:51AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> My 2009-09-18 change to ppc64_elf_relocate_section broke linking of
> large old-style dot-symbol binaries. If they happened to need toc
> adjusting stubs to support multiple toc sections, the lookup in
> relocate_section failed to match the stub created. (The lookup used
> the function descriptor symbol but the stub was created with the
> entry dot-symbol.) This meant you'd get a call that used the wrong
> toc pointer, usually causing a crash at startup in call_gmon_start.
Sigh. powerpc64-linux-ld is still not generating all the toc
adjusting stubs for multiple toc binaries, even with new-style
objects. Investigating.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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