binutils: "unexpected reloc type 0x17" on sparc

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Thu Jun 28 15:50:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:21:17PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> What I'm really trying to understand is why we've gotten away with not
> having this for all this time. :-)
> 
> Is this being emitted for something new like stack unwind info or
> dwarf2 debugging stuff?

By accident, or undocumented carefulness, I'm not sure which.

In either case, we weren't using the dwarf2 frame augmentation
field properly.  Fixing that (as well as tweeking other bits
at the same time) meant that the pointer to the EH type info
is no longer aligned.



r~



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