>binutils 2.9.1.0.19a and 2.9.1.0.25 suffer from a case of the random
>changing opcode syndrome. I've checked the surface of the machine for
>bacteria and viruses ;)
>
>Anyway, what seems to be happening is that certain 'b' instructions get
>converted to 'bl', since it appears that for PC_ARM_24 relocations in
>a relocatable link just have the correction added to them. ie,
>
> eafffffe -> eb000043 instead of ea000043
>
>This oddity seems to be fixed in binutils 2.9.5.0.16.
Yes, this is an old and fairly common problem. From what I remember it
occurs mainly with inter-section branches; this is one of the reasons the
.text.init thing didn't use to work too well. There is a patch in my
directory on netwinder.org that helps a bit with this but as you have
observed a better solution is just to use the newer tools.
p.
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