Re: linker problem

[hiufungeric dot tse at utoronto dot ca]

Hi Nick,

I am using the linker in gcc3... The problem is that I was cross-compiling some 
of the objects files from an intel assemler on windows .... the debugging info 
sections generated from the assembler was not in ELF (which is COFF32) format, 
although other sections are... And the gcc linker may get problems of the 
incompatability.. After I turn -d debug off, things are ok.

Can I ask a question related to this: we were using a flag -d debug, for 
assembler to generated COFF32 debug info for onjects.. is there any other flag 
for "cl" Intel 64 assembler installed on windows 32 bit machine, that we can 
use to generate ELF debug info sections for object.??  

If there is no options for generate debug info in ELF.... As I didn't work on 
any linkerscript.. is there any way I can play insied the linkerscripts so I 
can low level change debug info sections ----> from COFF32 to ELF... ensure 
there is no overlap?

thanks
eric



Quoting Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>:





> Hi Eric,
> 
> > I installed a binary version of gcc3.0.1 on an ia64 machine and
> >  encounter a linker error:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/ld: section .debug_info [0000000000000000 ->
> 0000000001f173a1] 
> > overlaps section .hash [0000000000000120 -> 00000000000049ab]
> 
> >  How to overcome this problem ?
> 
> Which version of LD are you using ?
> 
> Are you using a customised linker script or your own debug sections ?
> 
> The linker should only complain about overlapping sections that have
> both the ALLOC and LOAD attributes.  Normally debug sections will not
> have these attributes, and so this warning would not appear.
> 
> Cheers
>         Nick
> 
> 
>