powerpc ld bug

[Brendan John Simon]

Peter Popov wrote:

> I thought others might find this information useful...
>
> The linker in binutils-2.9.1 appears to have a rather
> serious bug, when used in a powerpc-eabi cross compiler.
> It puts multiple variables belonging to the sbss section
> at the same address.  I downloaded binutils-2.9.1.0.23, which
> is the latest binutils from RedHat and rebuild the tools.
> Linking the same code with binutils-2.9.1.0.23 produces the
> correct output.  I hope this bug was intentionally (rather
> than accidentally) fixed.

Apparently there a quite a few powerpc changes in the latest binutls cvs (maybe
it's just for linux targets?).
I think binutils-2.9.5 is the recommended version.  I think this is only
available via cvs though.

Brendan Simon.




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