[Bug ld/27119] ld improperly relocates function address, creating an invalid pointer

[amonakov at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27119

Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #3)
> Don't use
> 
> OUTPUT_FORMAT("binary")
> 
> with backend specific relocations, like R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX, since the
> generic binary linker can't process them properly.

If some part of the linker cannot process a particular relocation, why is it
emitting random nonsense instead of issuing a diagnostic message and stopping
with an error?

How is this "Not a bug"? This is a valid quality-of-implementation issue.

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