[Bug ld/4638] New: Discarded Sections with references don't cause errors (ARM/Thumb interworking)

[axelheider at gmx dot de]

I have a script like this to create and ELF file for a ARM CPU.

SECTIONS {
  .text 0x00100000 : {
    . = ALIGN(64);
    *(.text)
  } :text
  .data 0x00200000 : AT(ADDR(.text) + SIZEOF(.text)) {
    . = ALIGN(4);
    *(.data)
  } :data
  .bss : AT(LOADADDR(.data) + SIZEOF(.data)) {
    . = ALIGN(4);
    *(.bss)
  } :data
  
  /DISCARD/ : {
    *(*)
  }
}

This worked fine until I started using code that required ARM/Thumb
interworking. Then the app crashed. The disassembly showw that calls to the
functions requiring interworking look like this:

Address   opcode        mnemonic     comment
...
1299a8:   ebfb5994      bl 0         ;call foo1()
...
1299e4:   ebfb5988      bl c         ;call foo2()
...
129a24:   ebfb597b      bl 18        ;call foo3()
...

So I have an elf file, with wired jumps (like "bl 0") instead of the correct
interworking function calls. I found out that the interworking feature creates
two new "magic" sections called .glue_7 and .glue_7t. Unfortunately, the
"/DISCARD/" block in my linker script removes them. So the quick solution is to
add *(.glue_7) and *(.glue_7t) to my linker script. 
I admint, that it is my fault that the stub code from .glue_7/.glue_7t is
missing. But I would still expect an error to be thrown here. When I look at the
interworking stubs from .glue_7/.glue_7t I find this symbols.

0013f670 __foo1_from_arm
0013f67c __foo2_from_arm
0013f688 __foo3_from_arm

So, what seem to happen is this. If you look at the "bl x" above and the
addresses of the stubs, it seem that ld still puts the relative offsets right.
It's just the offset of the  discarded sections .glue_7/.glue_7t that is set to
zero or not added at all. 

Why doesn't ld throw an error here, that .glue_7/.glue_7t simply cannot be
discarded, because the code will no longer work correctly?

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           Summary: Discarded Sections with references don't cause errors
                    (ARM/Thumb interworking)
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.15
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: axelheider at gmx dot de
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4638

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