Relocations reference local (static or hidden) symbols on ia64

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:40:39PM +0200, Florian Weimer via Binutils wrote:
> * Andreas Schwab:
> 
> > On Sep 23 2021, Florian Weimer via Binutils wrote:
> >
> >> Relocation section '.rela.dyn' at offset 0xeb8 contains 53 entries:
> >>     Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
> >> […]
> >> 0000000000061608  0000001800000047 R_IA64_FPTR64LSB       000000000001dc00 openaux + 0
> >
> > This relocation creates the "official" function descriptor for the
> > function (which serves as the unique address of the function).
> 
> Oh.  _dl_make_fptr is … complex.
> 
> For a static function such as openaux, I would have expected the static
> linker to allocate space for a function descriptor and initialize it
> using an R_IA64_REL64LSB relocation.

Yes, or perhaps a different relocation.  Probably a bug in ia64
ld.bfd, but I doubt there is anyone both capable and willing to fix
it.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM