ld 2.16 bug in linker script ?

[Philippe Biondi]

Hi,

I used this minimal linker script :

SECTIONS {
        /DISCARD/ : {
                *(.stab*)
                *(.comment)
                *(.note)
        }
        _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ = .;
        all : {*(.text, .rodata, .rdata, .data, .bss) }
}


that worked as expected with ld 2.15. Now, with ld 2.16,
the line
        addl    $_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_+[.-.L6], %ebx
is assembled :
0000000C  81C35A000000      add ebx,0x5a ; (i.e after .text)
instead of :
0000000C  81C3F5FFFFFF      add ebx,0xfffffff5 ; (i.e. before .txt)

But if I use change the order of the lines in the linker script :

SECTIONS {
        _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ = .;
        /DISCARD/ : {
                *(.stab*)
                *(.comment)
                *(.note)
        }
        all : {*(.text, .rodata, .rdata, .data, .bss) }
}


it works with ld 2.15 and ld 2.16. So I'm happy that my problem is solved, 
but I think these two linker scripts should be equivalent.



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