Re: modutils bug? 'if' clause executes incorrectly

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

Keith,

> >I'm finding that in a Linux/MIPS module the test case attached executes the
> >'if' clause in
> 
> Almost certainly nothing to do with modutils, insmod just relocates and
> loads the program.  The only possible modutil problems are an
> unexpected relocation being emitted by binutils or insmod not handling
> a valid relocation correctly.  Compile with -g then do "objdump -rS
> object.o".  What does the offending section of code look like,
> including the relocations?

For such occassions I would like to see some debugging functionality in
modutils which allows dumping the relocated disk image as it would be
loaded into the kernel into a disk image which then could be examined
with objdump etc. for potencial problems.

  Ralf