From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:32:23 -0700 Received: from [131.188.77.254] ([131.188.77.254]:20740 "EHLO lappi") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:32:07 -0700 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:31:56 +0200 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:31:56 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Keith Owens Cc: Brady Brown , SGI news group , Ulf Carlsson Subject: Re: ELF/Modutils problem Message-ID: <20000922153156.A2677@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20000921153631.A1238@bacchus.dhis.org> <1690.969616620@ocs3.ocs-net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <1690.969616620@ocs3.ocs-net>; from kaos@melbourne.sgi.com on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 08:57:00PM +1100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 08:57:00PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:24:25AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > >> modutils 2.3.11 includes a sanity check on the number of local symbols > >> precisely because of this MIPS problem. I agree with you that mips gcc > >> is violating the ELF standard, 2.3.11 just detects this and issues an > >> error message instead of overwriting memory but gcc needs to be fixed. > > > >And gcc has nothing to with it so it won't need to be fixed ... > > Point taken, I should have said the MIPS toolchain instead of gcc. > Something in the toolchain is generating an ELF object that does not > follow the rules. Can we catch someone's attention to get it fixed? Ulf Carlsson is currently maintaining binutils. Ulf, you got the bandwidth to take a look at this? After a look over the gas code it's not obvious to my why this doesn't work on MIPS but on all the other architectures, you probably know the internals of this beast better than I do. Ralf