Chris Quenelle wrote:
> I think I have a linker bug discovered by someone at Rational.
>
> There are two .o files on an ld command line.
> Each .o file has a section named ".debug_str".
> One .o file has flags SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRING attached to ".debug_str"
> One .o file has no flags attached to ".debug_str"
>
> My reading of libld.h comments makes me think the
> linker should still combine those two elf section into
> one large section by appending the contents together.
Chris,
This sounds like:
6382945 AMD64-GCC: dbx: internal error: dwarf reference attribute out
of bounds
which I fixed back in March (and which was delivered in snv_38). I bet the
comments you're
reading in libld.h via OpenSolaris are the ones I put there then to explain the
fix
(lines 66-94).
It first appeared with gcc 3.4.3, which seems to have been the first version
that
sets SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRING.
The ld(1) fix has been backported for S10U4, which isn't done yet. It's been in
Open Solaris since April...
- Ali
