Sparc RELA incorrect addend

[Neil Mayes]

Hi Ian,

Thanks, I spotted the binutils help tonight! Appologies, newbie mistake.

Neil

2009/2/17 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>:
> 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
>