[Bug binutils/19405] nios2 binutils assertion fail at elf32-nios2.c:1038

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19405

--- Comment #6 from Thomas Petazzoni <address@hidden> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #5)

> (In reply to Thomas Petazzoni from comment #4)
> > Regarding the FDE encoding warnings, what do they mean exactly?
> 
> They mean that the binary search table that is part of the .eh_frame_hdr
> section cannot be created.  This happens because the (compiler generated)
> debug information for the entries in the .eh_frame section use absolute
> addresses not PC-relative addresses.  That means that at run time those
> addresses will have to be relocated (to wherever the library is being
> loaded).  Hence it is not safe to create a binary search table in the
> .eh_frame_hdr section as the addresses are not fixed.
> 
>   In practice the warning is not serious.  It just means that exception
> handling might be slower than it could be, but it should still work.

Great, thanks a lot for the explanation! I will try your patch soon and report
back.

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