From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>
Cc: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: question: i386 ld.gold reports "internal error" linking files with SHT_RELA section
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:36:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOpev=9c65HWFwZLQvKcjRq9SUQ4MSKMPQirAwcDELBMHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d171096013e06af9e0e275167aad57259c1b38f9.camel@neuf.fr>
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:53 AM Pierre Labastie
<pierre.labastie@neuf.fr> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 11:21 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 7:39 AM Xi Ruoyao via Binutils
> > <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Building SeaMonkey on i686 results:
> > >
> > > "/usr/bin/ld.gold: internal error in relocate_section, at
> > > ../../gold/i386.cc:3683"
> > >
> > > i386.cc:3683 is:
> > >
> > > gold_assert(sh_type == elfcpp::SHT_REL);
> > >
> > > AFAIK i386 normally use SHT_REL and x86_64 normally use SHT_RELA. But
> > > we've found that nasm-2.15.05 generates SHT_RELA for i386 as well.
> > >
> > > So should SHT_RELA be allowed for i386 at all? If "yes" we should fix
> > > it for gold, if "no" we should fix it for nasm.
> > > --
> > > Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
> > > School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
> >
> > SHT_RELA shouldn't be used for i386.
> >
>
> But it is accepted by ld.bfd...
Do you have .o files for ld.bfd I can take a look at?
> FWIIW, only the dwarf debug sections are generated as SHT_RELA by nasm.
>
> Pierre Labastie
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-30 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-30 14:38 Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-30 18:21 ` H.J. Lu
2022-08-30 18:53 ` Pierre Labastie
2022-08-30 20:36 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2022-08-31 4:43 ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-31 19:20 ` H.J. Lu
2022-09-01 0:47 ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-01 16:34 ` H.J. Lu
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