--- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-03-07
06:00 ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> Well, yes, the link is succesfull, but the problem is where common symbols in
> archived modules end up.
>
> Please, rerun ld with -G 8 and then run objdump on the output files a
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-03-07 04:57
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Well, yes, the link is succesfull, but the problem is where common symbols in
archived modules end up.
Please, rerun ld with -G 8 and then run objdump on the output files and confirm
that e4 is in .sbss and ef in
--- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-03-07
04:17 ---
It works for me after a small change:
bash-3.2$ cat d.s
.extern e4, ef
.comm d4, 4
.comm df, 15
.data
.long e4
.long ef
bash-3.2$ cat e.s
.
--- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-03-07
04:11 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Instructions to reproduce this issue:
>
> as d.s -o d.o
> as e.s -o e.o
> ar r e.a e.o
>
> The command below results in both "e4" and "ef" to be placed in .bss:
>
> ld d.o e.a
>
--- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-03-07
03:57 ---
This has nothing to do with binutils.
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What|Removed |Added
Status|NEW
These two bash sequences are not equivalent.
Clearly they ought to be. The bash man page apparently agrees.
% export X=x; time --version; unset X
-bash: --version: command not found
% unset X; X=x time --version
GNU time 1.7
Behavior observed in:
GNU bash, version 3.2.33(18)-release (
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-03-06 23:32
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Created an attachment (id=2311)
--> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2311&action=view)
Proposed patch to fix this issue.
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5895
--- You a
If .exitm is used outside a macro definition, then it behaves as .end, stopping
further processing.
For example:
.macro MAC
xor %eax, %eax
.endm
.exitm
MAC
bogus %eax, %eax # never flagged as illegal insn
.end
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Summary: Usage of .exitm outside a .macro block equivalent to
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-03-06 17:45
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Their ABIs are not specific, except that symbols referred to via the GP register
must reside in the small data sections. In the case of common symbols, in
.sbss, which doesn't happen at the moment if the symbol h
