Re: binutils 2.9 powerpc-rtems breakage

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> Once you can do that, set a breakpoint on output_file_create in gas,
> and see what format it is passing to bfd_openw, and see why that
> format is not defined by BFD.

Done.  Here is the gdb session.  It looks like even though I configure
with --enable-targets=all, I am missing elf32-powerpcle support.

(gdb) b output_file_create
Breakpoint 2 at 0x8053483: file ../../src/gas/output-file.c, line 46.
(gdb) run -mlittle
Starting program: /usr1/rtems/work/tools/build-powerpc-tools/gcc/as
-mlittle
During symbol reading...inner block not inside outer block...
block at 0x4000e041 out of order...
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4002a0c6: file ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c, line 134.

During symbol reading...inner block not inside outer block...
inner block not inside outer block...

Breakpoint 2, output_file_create (name=0x8155a45 "a.out")
    at ../../src/gas/output-file.c:46
46        if (name[0] == '-' && name[1] == '\0')
(gdb) bt
#0  output_file_create (name=0x8155a45 "a.out")
    at ../../src/gas/output-file.c:46
#1  0x804b6ed in main (argc=1, argv=0x81a8818) at ../../src/gas/as.c:752
(gdb) n
50        else if (!(stdoutput = bfd_openw (name, TARGET_FORMAT)))
(gdb) s
bfd_openw (filename=0x8155a45 "a.out", target=0x8156d6c "elf32-powerpcle")
    at ../../src/bfd/opncls.c:348
348       bfd_set_error (bfd_error_system_call);
(gdb) n
353       nbfd = _bfd_new_bfd ();
(gdb) n
354       if (nbfd == NULL)
(gdb) n
357       target_vec = bfd_find_target (target, nbfd);
(gdb) n
358       if (target_vec == NULL)
(gdb) 
371           objalloc_free ((struct objalloc *) nbfd->memory);
(gdb) 
372           free (nbfd);
(gdb) 
373           return NULL;
(gdb) 
377     }
(gdb) n
output_file_create (name=0x8155a45 "a.out") at
../../src/gas/output-file.c:52
52            as_perror ("FATAL: Can't create %s", name);
(gdb) n
Assembler messages:
FATAL: Can't create a.out: Invalid bfd target
53            exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
(gdb) 

--joel