Re: arm-*-*-ld --oformat binary SEGMENTATION FAULT

2008-10-22 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Marco, I have encountered a problem linking a binary format executable with target ARM. No matter whatever I link, when I use --oformat binary the result is always the same: segmentation fault. It is a known problem for the ARM port of the linker that you cannot convert to the binary fo

Re: [Bug ld/6962] New: ld fails in coffcode.h line 842 in handle_COMDAT

2008-10-22 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Jean-Marie, Please could you upload a small testcase so that we can reproduce this bug and investigate how to fix it ? Cheers Nick ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils

[Bug ld/6962] ld fails in coffcode.h line 842 in handle_COMDAT

2008-10-22 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-10-22 14:31 --- Subject: Re: New: ld fails in coffcode.h line 842 in handle_COMDAT Hi Jean-Marie, Please could you upload a small testcase so that we can reproduce this bug and investigate how to fix it ? Cheers Nick

[Bug binutils/6937] binutils 2.18 fails linking libopcodes.so due to missing symbols

2008-10-22 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-10-22 14:46 --- Hi Guys, Well - I do not know how to resolve this PR, but it seems obvious thatmy original patch was wrong, so I am going to revert it. Cheers Nick -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6937

[Bug ld/6945] ld -r severely broken on 64-bit mingw / pe-x86-64

2008-10-22 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-10-22 14:49 --- Created an attachment (id=3018) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3018&action=view) Do not update the vma's of output sections when performing a relocatable link on COFF objects. -- http:/

[Bug ld/6945] ld -r severely broken on 64-bit mingw / pe-x86-64

2008-10-22 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-10-22 14:51 --- Hi Mikael, Please could you try out the uploaded patch and see if it works for you. I think that it does the right thing, although I am not very happy with the method I have chosen. Still it does not seem to

[Bug binutils/6937] binutils 2.18 fails linking libopcodes.so due to missing symbols

2008-10-22 Thread ps dot m at gmx dot net
--- Additional Comments From ps dot m at gmx dot net 2008-10-22 18:13 --- earlier there was a PIC version of libiberty.a built in a subdirectory pic/ if target supports it, maybe we could reenable it and use that to link, alternatively libiberty.a could be always built PIC (PICFLAGS=-fPI

[Bug binutils/6937] binutils 2.18 fails linking libopcodes.so due to missing symbols

2008-10-22 Thread ps dot m at gmx dot net
--- Additional Comments From ps dot m at gmx dot net 2008-10-22 18:19 --- forgot to mention, if libiberty.a is not PIC, it will be buggy for cygwin too and if it is installed into any target (the binutils provided libiberty.a is usually installed on most distros I saw), it is not allowed