A serious bug of "ld --enable-auto-import"

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:22:11PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>AIDA Shinra wrote:
>
>> I found a bug of ld(included in binutils 20010802-1).
>> Following is a simple test program.
>> 
>
>Confirmed bug.  I dunno where the bug is coming from, or how to fix
>it...yet.
>
>I think the linker is ignoring the '+12' in this asm:
>
>movb $33,_hwstr1+12
>
>ld sees "_hwstr1" in the .o and blindly plunks in the address (via
>__imp__hwstr1 and the auto-import magic) *without* adding the 12.  I'll
>dig into this -- unless Paul beats me to it. Paul?  Paauulll?

I forwarded this bug to binutils.

Dunno if Paul will see it there or not but I thought it was more likely
the binutils developers might be able to track this down.

As soon as there is a patch forthcoming, I'll make a new release of binutils.
This seems like a pretty serious bug.

cgf

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