emitting relocation info bug

[Jeffrey Blank]

On my Red Hat 7.2 system, ld is writing the wrong
address for a symbol only when asked to emit
relocation information (with the -q) and the
executable it creates segfaults during run.  Compiling
the SRPM for wu-ftpd will demonstrate this.  

>From what I can tell with gdb, it looks like in 
_bfd_merged_section_offset (called from bfd/elflink.h
~line 6000) sets isym->st_value and that value is
later incremented further (by the relocation-writing
portion of elf_link_input_bfd(), ~line 6336) before
actually writing output.

The latest GNU snapshots are doing the same thing.  I
haven't made a patch yet; I'm assuming the authors
have a better idea than me how to keep the
optimizations from _bfd_merged_section_offset and
still get correct output.  

Please let me know if I'm being totally unclear or
imagining things.

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