Sparc RELA incorrect addend

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Neil Mayes <neil.mayes@googlemail.com> writes:

> On closer inspection it's a little worse. I have a local global
> variable which is located in .data @ 0x020005AC whereas the rela tells
> me its within the .text section. Symbol value == 0x02000000 (.text
> vitual address) with an addend == 0x020005AC, which is actually the
> absolute address. Looking through binutils I can see for a global
> symbol there is the following comment:
>
> /* To avoid generating warning messages about truncated relocations,
> set the relocation's address to be the same as the start of this
> section.  */
>
> It's strange that it's not got the correct section ID as well as an
> incorrect addend. If I turn it into a global global everything is OK
> with addend set to zero.
>
> This is using GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18
>   Supported emulations:
>    elf32_sparc

You are more likely to get help on GNU binutils issues at
binutils@sourceware.org.  See http://sourceware.org/binutils .  In order
to get help on this issue, I think you will need to provide a test case.

Ian