[Bug ld/20244] ld fails to handle "op $imm, address@hidden"

[hjl.tools at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20244

--- Comment #12 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Dopıng from comment #11)
> (In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #10)
> > > What I don’t get is why the older GNU ld seems to link these objects files
> > > into a shared library just fine. If that’s the case, the older ld must 
> > > have
> > > a way to properly deal with these assembly instructions, right?
> > 
> > The old linker will silently generate broken output.
> Hmm. Broken as in ”will probably cause a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS“, or less broken?
> 😉
> I’m wondering why nobody noticed this problem before. Is it possible that
> the problematic instructions belong to dead code, e.g. are part of a
> function that’s (almost) never called, part of a (faulty) generated
> exception handler, ...? Or did you find these instructions all over the
> place in the Oracle object files?

I don't think that piece of code is executed.

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