https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33684
--- Comment #2 from Ali Bahrami <ali_swbugzilla at emvision dot com> --- I have been discussing this issue with Rainer, and he did some research into when it might have occurred, which I will include below. I think this says that there has been a lot of variation over across releases around section symbols, and before that, around dealing with ELFOSABI_SOLARIS objects, and not just one simple thing that got broken at some point. ----- Rainer: I've done a bit of forensics because I've a bunch of old binutils versions around here. * This error reproduces all the way back from current trunk (2.46 to be) to binutils 2.36. * Between binutils 2.35 and 2.32, there are way fewer errors: m.232: .symtab: bad symbol index: 84 m.232: .symtab: bad symbol index: 85 m.232: .symtab: bad symbol index: 85 m.232: .symtab: bad symbol index: 84 * With binutils 2.31 down to 2.27 objcopy warns objcopy-2.31: m.231: failed to find link section for section 26 objcopy-2.31: m.231: failed to find link section for section 26 objcopy-2.31: m.231: failed to find link section for section 27 objcopy-2.31: m.231: failed to find link section for section 27 and elfdump reports m.231: .SUNW_symtabsort: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section m.231: .SUNW_symtabnsort: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section * objcopy 2.26 issues no warning but elfdump is even more unhappy: m.226: .SUNW_phname: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section m.226: .SUNW_ldynsym: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section m.226: .SUNW_dynsymsort: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section m.226: .SUNW_dynsymnsort: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section m.226: .SUNW_symtabsort: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section m.226: .SUNW_symtabnsort: sh_link: 0: does not point to a valid section I've stopped at that point, but there's a lot for breakage here and has been historically. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
