From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: problems with insmod ...
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 02:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001024024040.D1009@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7690.972340323@ocs3.ocs-net>; from kaos@melbourne.sgi.com on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:32:03AM +1100
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:32:03AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:45:22 -0700,
> Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> wrote:
> >I tried with 2.3.19, and now I am having problem with out of bound index
> >in symbol table. See the output below.
> >
> >---------
> >sh-2.03# insmod hello.o
> >hello.o: local symbol gcc2_compiled. with index 10 exceeds
> >local_symtab_size 10
> >hello.o: local symbol __gnu_compiled_c with index 11 exceeds
> >local_symtab_size 10
> >---------
>
> It is a toolchain bug, I think it is in the assembler. I have a dim
> distant memory from about a month ago that somebody on linux-mips found
> the problem. Ask the toolchain experts.
It's a bug bug in ld, one in BFD and a sillyness in IRIX ELF which the linker
uses. IRIX ELF uses different sorting rules for the symbol table, see
mips_elf_sym_is_global in bfd/elf32-mips.c.
- Bug one: ld generated output should follow the same rules as assembler
generated output.
- Bug two is more a design flaw - why does Linux/MIPS and most other
MIPS ELF configurations use IRIX and not ABI ELF?
- Bug three is that mips_elf_sym_is_global applies these IRIX ELF sorting
rules even to ABI ELF.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-24 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-21 2:50 problems with insmod Jun Sun
2000-10-21 3:11 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-21 4:12 ` Keith Owens
2000-10-23 18:45 ` Jun Sun
2000-10-23 22:32 ` Keith Owens
2000-10-24 0:40 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2000-10-24 1:08 ` Jun Sun
2000-10-24 1:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-24 1:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-23 22:42 ` Brady Brown
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