__start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME symbols are automatically generated
by ld for orphan sections, i.e. those not explicitely referenced by a
linker script. The symbols are supposed to be placed correspondingly
at the start and the end of the section in output file. In some cases
__start_SECNAME may be placed at the address after the end of the
previous section (if any) and before the start the section. This
happens when following conditions are met:
1. the orphan section is found in more than one input file
2. the orphan section has different alignment requirements across input
files
3. the first instance of the section encountered doesn't have the
greatest alignment requirement
In these conditions resulting output section will be placed at address
after the end of the previous section aligned to the greatest alignment
requirement in the inputs, but __start_SECNAME will be placed at address
after the end of the previous section aligned to the alignment
requirement of the first input in which the section is encountered.
See commit message of r196118 for a concrete example of problems caused
by this bug.
The fix is to place __start_SECNAME inside the section and use ABSOLUTE
directive, rather than placing __start_SECNAME outside the section and
trying to guess address alignment.
This fix is in line with upstream binutils change/fix made between
versions 2.19 and 2.20 in revision of 1.307 ldlang.c.
MFC after: 3 weeks
a variety of bugs in binutils related to handling of 64-bit PPC ELF,
provides a GCC configuration for 64-bit PowerPC on FreeBSD, and
associated build systems tweaks.
Obtained from: projects/ppc64
o) Add TARGET_ABI to the MIPS toolchain build process. This sets the default
ABI to one of o32, n32 or n64. If it is not set, o32 is assumed as that is
the current default.
o) Set the default GCC cpu type to any specified TARGET_CPUTYPE. This is
necessary to have a working "cc" if e.g. mips64 is specified, as binutils
will refuse to link objects using different ISAs in some cases.
o) Add support for n32 and n64 ABIs to binutils and GCC.
o) Add additional required libgcc2 stubs for n32 and n64.
o) Add support for the "mips64r2" architecture to GCC. Add the "octeon"
o) When static linking, wrap default libraries in --start-group and
--end-group. This is required for static linking to work on n64 with the
interdependencies between libraries there. This is what other OSes that
support n64 seem to do, as well.
o) Fix our GCC spec to define __mips64 for 64-bit targets, not __mips64__, the
former being what libgcc, etc., check and the latter seemingly being a
misspelling of a hand merge from a Linux spec.
o) When no TARGET_CPUTYPE is specified at build time, make GCC take the default
ISA from the ABI. Our old defaults were too liberal and assumed that 64-bit
ABIs should default to the MIPS64 ISA and that 32-bit ABIs should default to
the MIPS32 ISA, when we are supporting or will support some systems based on
earlier 32-bit and 64-bit ISAs, most notably MIPS-III.
o) Merge a new opcode file (and support code) from a later version of binutils
and add flags and code necessary to support Octeon-specific instructions.
This should also make merging opcodes for other modern architectures easier.
Reviewed by: imp
cplus_demangle_type. This is the rev 1.50-1.51 change.
Our addr2line, etc.. would crash if used on C++ code that contains
certain symbol types. One example is
_ZN13PatternDriver23StringScalarDeleteValueC1ERKNS_25ConflateStringScalarValueERKNS_25AbstractStringScalarValueERKNS_12TemplateEnumINS_12pdcomplementELZNS_16complement_namesEELZNS_14COMPLEMENTENUMEEEE
non-shared object, do not reserve space in .plt and .rela.plt
for regular symbols neither defined nor referenced in shared objects.
This is a backport of rev. 1.101 (sourceware.org repository) to
Binutils 2.15 which fixes the creation of bogus relocations in the
PLT of Firefox and Thunderbird binaries and which in turn caused
them to segfault in rtld(1). This is committed to the vendor branch
as it doesn't represent a local change but the original vendor fix
is from after elf_link_hash_flags was replaced with bitfields.
PR: sparc64/89486
Approved by: maintainer timeout
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 1 week
(Note this makes the vendor branch not represent Binutils in the vendor's
CVS repository at any point in time. Portmgr did not like the state of
Binutils on Sparc that represented the point in time the vendor fixed this
issue. I'd rather have fixed this on RELENG_6.)
Approved by: re
