[mips] relative FDE relocations without DW_EH_PE_signed

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 12:42:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:28:47AM +0800, Mingjie Xing wrote:
> When bfd starts to write section in _bfd_elf_write_section_eh_frame,
> the addresses will be converted as negative values, for example
> 0xfffeffe4. But the fde encoding is not DW_EH_PE_signed at this time.
> This will cause the address be dumped as an unsigned value, which
> looks like pc=100020000.
> 
> Is it a bug?

I think your eh_frame data is OK.  The bug is in readelf.  When
readelf is built on a 64-bit host, it can display more address bits
than are relevant for a 32-bit target.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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