run-elflint-self.sh fails on alpha

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 00:17:54 UTC 2011


> section [ 5] '.dynsym': symbol 61: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [ 5] '.dynsym': symbol 64: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [28] '.symtab': symbol 27: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [28] '.symtab': symbol 34: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [28] '.symtab': symbol 35: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [28] '.symtab': symbol 36: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [28] '.symtab': symbol 37: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [28] '.symtab': symbol 38: unknown bit set in st_other
> section [28] '.symtab': _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ symbol value 0x120014010 does not match .got section address 0x120014000

These indicate either bugs in the compilation tools (probably ld) or else
machine-specific oddities that the elfutils backend library for alpha needs
to be taught to allow.  We can help figure out the details if you supply
us with one of the binaries that gets these messages.


Thanks,
Roland


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