Neil Mayes <neil.mayes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On closer inspection it's a little worse. I have a local global > variable which is located in .data @ 0x020005AC whereas the rela tells > me its within the .text section. Symbol value == 0x02000000 (.text > vitual address) with an addend == 0x020005AC, which is actually the > absolute address. Looking through binutils I can see for a global > symbol there is the following comment: > > /* To avoid generating warning messages about truncated relocations, > set the relocation's address to be the same as the start of this > section. */ > > It's strange that it's not got the correct section ID as well as an > incorrect addend. If I turn it into a global global everything is OK > with addend set to zero. > > This is using GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18 > Supported emulations: > elf32_sparc You are more likely to get help on GNU binutils issues at binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx See http://sourceware.org/binutils . In order to get help on this issue, I think you will need to provide a test case. Ian
