[Info-vax] IA64 assembler file in shared image - ILINK-W-NOTPMTIDX

[hb]

On 03/21/2015 05:54 AM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> writes:
...
>> %ILINK-W-NOTPMTIDX,  section (index 0x00000000) encountered when trying
>> to index PMT
>>          module: UNIX
>>          file: LCL_ROOT:[libffi.ia64-dec-vms.libs]libffi.a;1
>> %ILINK-W-NOTPMTIDX,  section (index 0x00000000) encountered when trying
>> to index PMT
>>          module: UNIX
>>          file: LCL_ROOT:[libffi.ia64-dec-vms.libs]libffi.a;1
...
> $ help/message NOTPMTIDX
>
>   NOTPMTIDX,  'symbol-type' symbol (index 0x'hexadecimal-number')
>               encountered when trying to index PMT
>          module: 'module-name'
>          file: 'file-name'
>
>    Facility:     ILINK, OpenVMS I64 Linker Utility
>
>    Explanation:  The section index is not identifiable as a valid section index
>                  by the linker.

Symbol-type is not shown, here. So it is likely a local symbol causing 
this. Check with analyze/object/section=symtab for (local) symbols which 
have a shndx of 0 (analyze labels this field with "Bound to section:"). 
For a local symbol this would mean an undefined one, which the linker 
has no chance to resolve (from where???). So itis a problem in the 
object which the linker reports.

Without looking at the object, this can be either a problem in the IA64 
assembler (Have your system manager contact...) or in the sources.