Subject: Re: bug#20614: Segmentation fault when building on Power8 Little Endian

From: Jaromir Capik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:24:27 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Andreas.

> Petr Hracek <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > [20] .plt                 NOBITS       00000000102b0000 002a0000 00002058
> > 8 WA     0   0  8
> > [21] .data                PROGBITS     00000000102b2058 002a2058 002c6d36
> > 0 WA     0   0  8
> > [22] .bss                 NOBITS       0000000010578d90 00568d8e 00087740
> > 0 WA     0   0 16
> 
> You have a broken linker.  Having NOBITS sections interspersed with
> non-NOBITS sections doesn't make sense.

If I understood correctly, this is intentional (security).
If you believe it's wrong, feel free to discuss that with
the binutils maintainers.

Regards,
Jaromir.

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