Re: [MiNT] [BINUTILS] 2.16.1howto

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:32 +0200, Patrice Mandin wrote:
> Le Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:08:00 +0200
> Patrice Mandin <mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> a écrit:
> 
> > I just finished to write my page, with the final patch. Now testing
> > and debugging is needed. I hope the infos I wrote there will help
> > other to find what may prevent it from working.
> 
> OK, I tested by compiling a simple "hello world" program. The gcc
> compilation did not change (i.e. from .c to .s), gas worked (from .s to
> .o). The problem comes at link stage in ld.
> 
> m68k-atari-mint-ld: BFD 2.16.1 internal error, aborting at
> ../../binutils-2.16.1-new/bfd/aoutx.h line 5057 in
> aout_link_input_section_std
> 
> The part of aoutx.h file related to this:
> 
> --8<--8<--8<--
>   if (r != bfd_reloc_ok)
>   {
>     switch (r)
>     {
>       default:
>       case bfd_reloc_outofrange:
>         abort (); /* this is line 5057 that abort linking */
>       case bfd_reloc_overflow:
> --8<--8<--8<--
> 
> The r variable is setup at various stages before this line, so this is a
> problem with relocation stuff in prg-mint.c.
> 

Is there a special debug version of ld (or binutils) that spits out a
lot of variables and printfs?  Or I guess we should use gdb to debug it.

Thanks,
Mark