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

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 05:50:13PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

If I'm not mistaken, from ARM ELF File Format, the .strtab section is
only used for debugging and has nothing to do with execution? (In order
to assess the scope of the problem.)
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