In message 200508311014.33369.g.jaeger@sysgo.com you wrote:
I followed the discussions about broken linker and wrong command table relocation and decided to dig somewhat deeper. I have sent a report to the binutils guys. Please see the short discussion on the binutils list about that issue: http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-08/msg00412.html
Thanks for all of this, this really helps a lot.
Umm... You write in this discussion:
| Hmmm, I get the impression, that I need to re-read the docs more carefully...
Well, I tried before. But the documentation for 2.15.94.0.2.2 which is for example used in Fedora Core 4 does not mention anythingof this. Not even a hint. So this is obviously a new "feature", and they even bothered to document it. I wonder why they broke existing behaviour in the first place. In my opinion the ". = ." thing is a workaround for a linke bug. But I have neither time nor nerves to do anything about it, so I'll give way.
In the end, I got the expression, that we really need to introduce a small change to the linker scripts to fix that issue:
. = .;
Will do that. Thanks again!!
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk