[ECOS] ld segfaults - Did you solve the problem?

[Bo Engstrom]

Hello again,

Removing -ffunction-sections 'solved' our ld problem too.

Thank you for the help!

Bosse
http://www.UpZide.com

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 17:39, Mark Grosberg wrote:
> Note: I am CC'ing the ecos-discuss@ list.
> 
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Bo Engstrom wrote:
> 
> > Hello Mark,
> >
> > In the last days we have experienced problems with
> > our i386-elf-ld 2.13.1. It core dumps on changed
> > source code with a tool chain that have worked for
> > months. I surfed around and found your entry to the
> > eCos mail list.
> 
> I assume you are using the eCos-centric binary packages? It seems to just
> be a bug in some versions of GNU ld.
> 
> > Did you ever find a solution to your link problem?
> 
> If you are compiling your code with -ffunction-sections and/or
> -fdata-sections then removing those two options might help (at the expense
> of bloating your image).
> 
> If that doesn't work the lamer solution is to change around link order. We
> never investigated it further due to time constraints (imagine how bad
> things would be for us if we tracked down every Tornado problem. hehe).
> 
> Our solution has been to not compile with multi-section objects. The
> benefit of multi-section objects is that if you have a source file with 10
> routines by you only call one of them then only one gets linked in. So
> we're still waiting for UNIX linkers (a personal rant of mine) to catch up
> to the 80's.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Mark G.
> 
> CEO & CTO: GladeSoft, Inc.
> http://gladesoft.com/

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