* More information about: Bug in ar?
@ 2000-07-19 2:43 Cyrille Artho
2000-07-19 3:26 ` Alan Modra
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From: Cyrille Artho @ 2000-07-19 2:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: binutils
A few things I did not mention before: I always built the files from
scratch, because running 'ar ru...' produced too many errors.
The object files from g++ are usually the same, although the *sometimes*
differ. The difference is not, as I previously suspected, in the
mangling strings coming from g++ (these never differ). The outputs of
'nm' are always equal, except for (sometimes) missing symbols and, of
course, offsets.
I finally could reproduce an output where the .o files differed (which
is not often the case) and where 'nm' said "xy.o truncated". Therefore,
the problem may lie in g++.
I will now investigate whether the source code that produces the error
always includes some C code in a C++ file that has not yet been declared
extern "C".
Possibly, the error "file xy truncated" results from g++, while the
error messages
BFD: UTraceOut.o: invalid string offset 1769472 >= 958 for section
`.shstrtab'
hint at some problem in BFD.
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Cyrille Artho - http://artho.com
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* Re: More information about: Bug in ar?
2000-07-19 2:43 More information about: Bug in ar? Cyrille Artho
@ 2000-07-19 3:26 ` Alan Modra
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From: Alan Modra @ 2000-07-19 3:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cyrille Artho; +Cc: binutils
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Cyrille Artho wrote:
[snip]
> The object files from g++ are usually the same, although the *sometimes*
> differ.
[snip]
> hint at some problem in BFD.
I'd be more inclined to suspect you have a hardware problem of some
sort. Compilers are deterministic (barring bugs with uninitialised
variables), so you should always get the same output given the same input.
Alan Modra
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