Re: binutils 2.16.1 assembler dwarf2 relocations break solaris native ld

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:28:12PM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > So who is right here? Is there really an alignment problem with the
> > debug sections in the object file, or is the solaris linker just
> > confused? If there is a problem, why doesn't binutils ld complain?
> 
> GNU ld supports unaligned R_SPARC_32 relocations, while Sun ld doesn't.  The
> relocations should have been R_SPARC_UA32 for Sun ld to be able to grok
> them.  The bottom line is that you need GNU ld if you want to directly
> use -gdwarf2 with GNU as (or use -g on an assembly file with GCC).

Silly question, perhaps, but why not have gas generate R_SPARC_UA32?

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