#8564: Unhandled ELF relocation types on dynamically loading object files with GHCi ------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: pgj | Owner: pgj Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: FreeBSD Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: GHCi crash Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------- GHCi cannot handle ELF symbols with relocation types 15 (i386) and 22 (amd64) (such as {{{ThreadRuneLocale}}}, coming from libc on systems later than 9.0) when dynamically loading object files. This can be reproduced by the issuing the following commands: {{{ # pkg install hs-hs-bibutils .. $ ghci Prelude> :m Text.Bibutils Prelude> bibl_init Loading package syb-0.4.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package hs-bibutils-5.0 ... linking ... <interactive>: /usr/local/lib/cabal/ghc-7.6.3/hs-bibutils-5.0/HShs-bibutils-5.0.o: unhandled ELF relocation(Rel) type 15 ghc: unable to load package `hs-bibutils-5.0' Prelude> }}} The source file {{{rts/Linker.c}}}, function {{{do_Elf_Rela_relocations()}}} is missing the case branches for types 15 ({{{R_386_TLS_IE}}}) and 22 ({{{R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF}}}). They shall be implemented for FreeBSD. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8564 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler