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Re: BUG elf32-i386 R_386_PC32 done wrong


From: Eric Botcazou
Subject: Re: BUG elf32-i386 R_386_PC32 done wrong
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:56:09 +0200
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> Knowledge of how microprocessors work (re adding the offset to
> eip) goes back the beginning of the very first microprocessors
> of any kind.  This is why it is amazing that *both* compiler
> writers and linker writers in linux seem to be completely
> uninformed about how the processors they use work, even in their
> best known and simplest aspects.  Anyone who sees those -4's in
> existing .o and .so files cannot conclude anything other than
> "this Linux is bound together with rubber bands."

Interesting.  Then your next task is to convince the dumb guys at Sun too 
because their toolchain behaves exactly like the Linux toolchain...

bash-2.03$ uname -a
SunOS xxx.xxx.xxx 5.8 Generic_108529-13 i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-2.03$ cat t.s
        .text
.globl bar
        .type   bar, @function
bar:
        pushl   %ebp
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        subl    $8, %esp
        call    foo
        leave
        ret
bash-2.03$ as -V
as: Sun WorkShop 6 99/08/16
Usage: as [-V] [-Q{y,n}] [-s]
          [-S[aAbBcClL]] [-K {pic,PIC}] [-o objfile] [-L] [-T]
          [-P [[-Ipath] [-Dname] [-Dname=def] [-Uname]]...]
          [-m [-Ym,path]] [-n] [-xF] [-F] [-b] [-i] file.s ...
bash-2.03$ as -o t.o t.s
bash-2.03$ dis t.o
                ****   DISASSEMBLER  ****


disassembly for t.o

section .text
bar()
           0:  55                     pushl  %ebp
           1:  8b ec                  movl   %esp,%ebp
           3:  83 ec 08               subl   $0x8,%esp
           6:  e8 fc ff ff ff         call   <extern>
           b:  c9                     leave
           c:  c3                     ret
bash-2.03$ elfdump -r t.o

Relocation Section:  .rel.text
        type                          offset             section        with 
respect to
        R_386_PC32                       0x7             .rel.text      foo


http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/6mhm7pl28?q=Solaris+10+&s=t&a=view

-- 
Eric Botcazou




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