Bug 692721

Summary:	ld from binutils 2.21.51.0.6 breaks linker script constructs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	H. Peter Anvin <hpa>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	jakub, nickc
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Description H. Peter Anvin 2011-03-31 22:40:33 UTC

Description of problem:
ld from binutils 2.21.51.0.6 produce incorrect results for linker script expressions which involve section-relative symbols.  Any project which uses a linker script and has such expressions will silently miscompile.

This includes, at a minimum, Syslinux and wraplinux, but is very likely to affect other projects which include their own linker scripts.

It is quite possible this affects all binutils 2.21 versions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.21.51.0.6-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
See upstream bug report:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12627

Comment 1 H. Peter Anvin 2011-04-01 04:17:14 UTC

This bug appears to be fixed in binutils-2.21.51.0.7, which is the current upstream version.

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