Hints on investigating 'invalid ELF header' on ia64-hp-openvms

[h.becker]

The vms linker complains about the 'magic number' of your object module
SIMPLE.O. Use readelf or the vms tool analyze/object to find/compare
what the magic should be - and keep in mind, that on vms object modules
can be concatenated: which means, in an object file the first byte after
an object module is interpreted as the start of the next ELF header:

$ readelf -h shr.obj
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF64
  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            VMS - OpenVMS
  ABI Version:                       2
  Type:                              REL (Relocatable file)
  Machine:                           Intel IA-64
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x0
  Start of program headers:          0 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          1648 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x1000014, 64-bit, vms_linkages
  Size of this header:               64 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           0 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         0
  Size of section headers:           64 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         18
  Section header string table index: 1
$



On 07/29/2015 10:51 AM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Using a crossed native build of binutils running on ia64-hp-openvms,
> object file built [2] from assembly file [3] is invalid [1]
> 
> As the cross binutils build produces valid object files on the target,
> the issue seems to be related to the crossed native build process.
> I am looking for hints on how to further investigate and solve this issue.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> [1]
> 
> ||$ MCR DISK$USERS:[ADALABS]ld.exe -v simple.o -o simple.exe
> $ link /exe=SIMPLE.EXE simple.opt_tmpfile/opt
> |%ILINK-E-INVLDHDR, invalid ELF header; field 'ehdr$b_ei_mag0' has
> invalid value
> %X00
>         module: <unassigned>
>         file: DISK$USERS:[ADALABS]SIMPLE.O;6|
> 
> 
> [2]
> 
> |$ MCR DISK$USERS:[ADALABS]as.exe  -o simple.o simple.s|
> 
> 
> [3] simple.s
> 
> |     .file    "simple.c"
>     .pred.safe_across_calls p1-p5,p16-p63
>     .text
>     .align 16
>     .global main#
>     .type    main#, @function
>     .proc main#
> main:
>     .prologue 2, 2
>     .vframe r2
>     mov r2 = r12
>     .body
>     nop 0
>     ;;
>     .restore sp
>     mov r12 = r2
>     br.ret.sptk.many b0
>     ;;
>     .endp main#
>     .ident    "GCC: (GNU) "|
> 
> 
> 
> 
>