binutils-gdb/ld
Senthil Kumar Selvaraj 4cb771f214 Fix PR20789 - relaxation with negative valued diff relocs
Fix issues with diff relocs that have a negative value
i.e. sym2 - sym1 where sym2 is lesser than sym1.

The assembler generates a diff reloc with symbol as start of section
and addend as sym2 offset, and encodes assembly time difference at
the reloc offset.

The existing relaxation logic adjusts addends if the relaxed insn lies
between symbol and addend. That doesn't work for diff relocs where
sym2 is less than sym1 *and* the relaxed insn happens to be between
sym2 and sym1.

Fix the problems by

1. Using signed handling of the difference value (bfd_signed_vma instead
of bfd_vma, bfd_{get,set}_signed_xxx instead of bfd_{get,set}_xxx).

2. Not assuming sym2 is bigger than sym1. It instead computes the actual
addresses and sets the lower and higher addresses as start and end
addresses respectively and then sees if insn is between start and end.

3. Creating a new function elf32_avr_adjust_reloc_if_spans_insn to
centralize reloc adjustment, and ensuring diff relocs get adjusted
correctly even if their sym + addend doesn't overlap a relaxed insn.

It also removes a redundant variable did_pad. It is never set if
did_shrink is TRUE, and the code does a early return if did_shrink is
FALSE.

bfd/ChangeLog

2016-11-15  Senthil Kumar Selvaraj  <senthil_kumar.selvaraj@atmel.com>

       PR ld/20789
       * bfd/elf32-avr.c (elf32_avr_adjust_diff_reloc_value): Do signed
       manipulation of diff value, and don't assume sym2 is less than sym1.
       (elf32_avr_adjust_reloc_if_spans_insn): New function.
       (elf32_avr_relax_delete_bytes): Use elf32_avr_adjust_diff_reloc_value,
       and remove redundant did_pad.

ld/ChangeLog

2016-11-15  Senthil Kumar Selvaraj  <senthil_kumar.selvaraj@atmel.com>

       PR ld/20789
       * ld/testsuite/ld-avr/pr20789.d: New test.
       * ld/testsuite/ld-avr/pr20789.s: New test.
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		README for LD

This is the GNU linker.  It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils.  See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.

There are many features of the linker:

* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
  that it uses to read and write object files.  This helps
  insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.

* The linker supports a number of different object file
  formats.  It can even handle multiple formats at once:
  Read two input formats and write a third.

* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.

* The linker supports a control language.

* There is a user manual (ld.texinfo), as well as the
  beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texinfo).

Installation
============

See ../binutils/README.

If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile
or using the --with-lib-path configure switch.

To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).

Porting to a new target
=======================

See the ldint.texinfo manual.

Reporting bugs etc
===========================

See ../binutils/README.

Known problems
==============

The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable.  The GNU linker does not do this by default.  This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets).  This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl.  You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
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HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly.  The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
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workarounds to this:
  * Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
  * Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
  * Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
    genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
    emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.

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