ld, objdump fails to process a.out-arm PIC objects

[Ian McDonnell]

An object file created with
'gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)'
running on either NetBSD/arm32 or NetBSD/i386
fails to be processed by binutils 2.9.1.1 or 2.10.1
ld/objcopy/objdump running on NetBSD/i386 (binutils 2.10.1
built using 'all-targets' config option and native (i386)
egcs-2.91.66 19990314 compiler).

Sample object file (blocksort.so) attached below.

> charm$ /usr/local/bin/objcopy --target=a.out-arm-netbsd -x blocksort.so x.so
> BFD: bfd assertion fail aoutx.h:2298
> BFD: bfd assertion fail aoutx.h:2298
> BFD: bfd assertion fail aoutx.h:2298
> BFD: bfd assertion fail aoutx.h:2298
> BFD: bfd assertion fail aoutx.h:2298 ...

> charm$ /usr/local/bin/objcopy -V
> GNU objcopy 2.10.1
> Copyright 1997, 98, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

ld core-dumps

[This problem was encountered while attempting to
cross compile NetBSD 1.5_BETA for arm32(a.out)
on host NetBSD 1.5_BETA i386(elf).]

-imcd

blocksort.so
Description: Binary data