Re: ppc problem with .rodata.str1.4. binutils requirement for gcc 3.3.1?

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 19:07 28.11.2003, Kris Warkentin wrote:
> In the course of building some powerpc startup code we found ld complaining
> about "allocated section `.rodata.str1.4' not in segment" and "allocated
> section `.eh_frame' not in segment".  I observed that some of the objects in
> the startup had .rodata.str1.4 sections in them.  I also observed that if I
> took the ld from binutils 2.12.1 to 2.14, the problem went away.
>
> I didn't find any talk of a hard binutils requirement for the 3.3 series of
> gcc but perhaps I missed it.  Can anyone shed some light on this?  I hope
> I'm not too astonishing in my ignorance but this .rodata.str1.x doesn't seem
> to be generated by our older gcc and I don't really know what the
> significance of it all is.

There was some discussion on this, gcc-3.3+ needs binutils 2.13.2 or later 
at least on linux platforms, possible on all platforms that use binutils as 
a backend. For some platforms it's even documented:

 http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#powerpc-*-linux-gnu*

Here 2.13.90.0.10 is a development snapshot from somewhere between 2.13.1 
and 2.13.2.

Franz.