Subject: Re: reloc sym ""
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Michael Rauch <mrauch@netbsd.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 09/06/2001 18:34:33
Hi, 

I've found something interesting which may help tracking this down:

taking the same assembler code (from a C++ test file using exceptions), 
assembling it with the binutils as and then looking at it with 
`objdump --reloc class.o` yields a difference which seems to cause the 
trouble:

with binutils-2.10 I get
RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.eh_frame]:
OFFSET   TYPE              VALUE 
0000001c R_SPARC_32      .text+0x00000008
[...]

while it's with binutils-2.11
RELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.eh_frame]:
OFFSET   TYPE              VALUE 
0000001c R_SPARC_UA32        .text+0x00000008
[...]

(R_SPARC_UA32 is reloc type 23 btw.)

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:18:06PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>    > 
>    > /orb/e/pkgsrc.obj.sparc/lang/perl5-base/work.sparc/perl-5.6.1/libperl.so: 
>    > Undefined symbol "" (reloc type = 23, symnum = 4)
> [...]
> it may be an interaction with "new" gcc and "new" binutils.  i will note
> that my new binutils were 2.11 based.

I don't know what to do further, but this seems to be the important part 
why it won't work.

If anyone is interested I can provide the files I've used. 


Michael