powerpc ld core dump in 2.29

[Joel Sherrill]

Thanks. Sending the files off list.

--joel

On 8/8/2017 5:02 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:51:52AM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> This has worked for years and just broke. Could be a more
>> strict interpretation of how to generate this.
>>
>> powerpc-rtems4.12-ld -o qemu_fakerom.bin qemu_fakerom.o \
>>    qemu_fakeres.o --oformat binary -nostdlib \
>>    -Ttext 0xfff00000 --section-start=.romentry=0xfffffffc
>>
>> I can provide an object file and test case in Bugzilla if
> 
> Yes please, your qemu_fakerom.o and qemu_fakeres.o are needed for me
> or anyone else to reliably (and easily) reproduce the problem.   I'd
> guess we have something touching ELF specific data structures that
> aren't present when the output file is binary.  Note that there have
> already been some fixes committed to the branch for exactly this sort
> of problem.
> 
>> needed but I have a hunch there is something more specific
>> needed on the ld command invocation.
>>
>> Help appreciated. Thanks.
>>