Re: String offset errors on evbarm 8.99 [PR 54159]

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 05:13:06PM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 04:15:17PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 11:45:26AM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> > > So it seems that the problem is created by the invocation of libtool.
> > 
> > This is a bug in GNU ld, it has nothing to do with libtool. I regulary
> > see it with clang in the base system too.
> 
> But if I link the objects directly by an invocation of the compiler
> front-end, there is no such problem (and it is still GNU ld).

Yes, random changes to the linker invocation can workaround it. It's
still GNU ld that is broken.

Joerg