[Bug gold/13023] New: gold misinterprets dot assignments in sections

[luto at mit dot edu]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13023

           Summary: gold misinterprets dot assignments in sections
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.21
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gold
        AssignedTo: address@hidden
        ReportedBy: address@hidden


Created attachment 5858
  --> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5858
Test case, part 1

Gold seems to think that numbers assigned to '.' inside of an output section
are absolute.  They should be relative.  Small test case attached.

This breaks the Linux kernel build as of this change:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7

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