From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@thepuffingroup.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Trouble building CVS binutils
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:28:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14902.946582128@upchuck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:18:47 EST. <19991230141847.W12629@thepuffingroup.com>
In message <19991230141847.W12629@thepuffingroup.com>you write:
> I'm closer...
>
> in bfd/som.c, function setup_sections(), in the subspace_index loop, around
> line 2025 here:
>
> subspace_asect->alignment_power = log2 (subspace.alignment);
> if (subspace_asect->alignment_power == -1)
> goto error_return;
>
> subspace.alignment is _0_ in one of the subspaces. HP's nm manages
> just fine. GNU's bails, which actually seems pretty reasonable to me :-)
> Two questions spring to mind:
> Why is the linker producing a subspace with an alignment of 0?
> What should BFD do when it encounters a file with such an alignment?
According to the SOM spec the subspace alignment must be greater than zero.
Thus, this seems like a bug in the HP linker.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-30 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-30 17:16 [parisc-linux] Trouble building CVS binutils Matthew Wilcox
1999-12-30 17:16 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-12-30 17:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-12-30 17:42 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-12-30 19:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-12-30 19:28 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1999-12-30 20:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
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