Re: Incremental linking

[Wolfgang Lux]

On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 11:06 +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For various reasons, I have been reading the binutils ld
> documentation 
> and there is a note that -Ur is needed instead of -r for incremental 
> linking of C++ programs that contain constructors.  I suspect that
> this 
> is just badly written documentation - can someone try patching -make
> to 
> use -Ur instead of -r and see if Additions links correctly with BFD
> ld?
> 
> David

I did give it a quick try by recompiling the Additions library with
messages=yes to see the commands being executed by make and then
reexecuted the link command with -Wl,-Ur instead of -Wl,-r.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help for me (Ubuntu 18.04 with clang-9 and
bfd). Programs still segfault. :-(

Wolfgang