Re: heads up: apparent GAS bug in current (CVS) binutils

H. J. Lu
2005-05-13T21:01:11Z

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 01:59:06PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 13 May 2005 13:50:04 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:
>
> HJ> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 01:34:10PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >> >>>>> On Fri, 13 May 2005 10:32:19 -0700, "Lu, Hongjiu"
> >> <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> said:
>
> HJ> I tried binutils 2.15.92.0.2 20040927 and got the same
> HJ> result. What is the version of assembler which you think is
> HJ> good?
> >> The standard Debian/sarge as seems fine:
>
> >> $ as -v GNU assembler version 2.15 (ia64-linux) using BFD version
> >> 2.15
>
> HJ> As I have mentioned before, it is an IPF specific kernel issue.
> HJ> Basically, when you use weak functions, unwind info may be
> HJ> wrong. I am enclosing an updated kernel patch.
>
> I agree that this is weird code that needs to be fixed, preferably by
> not using weak functions at all (as Andreas suggested).
>
> However, there still seems to be a binutils issues here: if this is
> something binutils cannot properly support, it should issue an error,
> not silently generate wrong code, no?

I will see what I can do.

H.J.