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Re: Increment
Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:36:59PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
>> > * hash.c (bfd_hash_lookup): Correct stray line.
>>
>> The linker is now crashing very often with an assertion failure in
>> _bfd_elf_strtab_delref. Apparently the hash resizing was never properly
>> tested, since with the misplaced increment it was unlikely to ever
>> trigger. In fact, disabling it will fix the crashes.
>
> How do you get these crashes?
Just by linking any moderately big binary.
> I've built an entire powerpc biarch toolchain, binutils+gcc+glibc+gdb,
> mainline cvs for everything except gcc which was 4.1 branch cvs. No
> assertions noticed.
Are you sure that the hash resizing was actually triggered in your tests?
Andreas.
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