[Bug binutils/10634] New: ld -r leaves gaps in output

[davek at gcc dot gnu dot org]

Reported at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00264.html

Testcase:

$ cat segm.c
void text() { __asm__(".space 104"); }
char       data[256] = "DATA";
const char rdata[16] = "RDATA";


$ gcc -c segm.c


cygwin-1.5:
$ cygcheck -f /bin/ld
binutils-20080624-2


$ ld -r -o segm-r5.o segm.o


cygwin-1.7:
$ cygcheck -f /bin/ld
binutils-2.19.51-1


$ ld -r -o segm-r7.o segm.o


$ size segm.o segm-*.o
  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   128     256       0     384     180 segm.o
   128     256       0     384     180 segm-r5.o
   512     384     400    1296     510 segm-r7.o



$ objdump -s segm-r*.o

segm-r5.o: file format pe-i386

Contents of section .text:
0000 5589e500 00000000 00000000 00000000  U...............
...
0060 00000000 00000000 0000005d c3909090  ...........]....
Contents of section .data:
0080 44415441 00000000 00000000 00000000  DATA............
...
0170 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
Contents of section .rdata:
0180 52444154 41000000 00000000 00000000  RDATA...........


segm-r7.o: file format pe-i386

Contents of section .text:
0000 5589e500 00000000 00000000 00000000  U...............
...
0060 00000000 00000000 0000005d c3909090  ...........]....
Contents of section .data:
0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
...
0080 44415441 00000000 00000000 00000000  DATA............
...
0170 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
Contents of section .rdata:
0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
...
0180 52444154 41000000 00000000 00000000  RDATA...........

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           Summary: ld -r leaves gaps in output
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.21 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: davek at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: davek at gcc dot gnu dot org
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-cygwin
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-cygwin
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-cygwin


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10634

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