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Re: Increment
"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:19:24AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Will building gcc on x86, x86-64 and ia64 trigger this?
For the particular case of builing the libsndfile package it triggers on
x86, x86-64 and ia64, but not on ppc/ppc64.
gcc -O2 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wno-unused-parameter -std=gnu99 -W -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wbad-function-cast -Wwrite-strings -pipe -o .libs/sndfile-regtest sndfile-regtest.o database.o checksum.o ../src/.libs/libsndfile.so /usr/lib/libFLAC.so /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so -lpthread -lm
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
/usr/lib/gcc/ia64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../ia64-suse-linux/bin/ld: BFD 2.17.50.0.2 20060526 (SUSE Linux) assertion fail ../../bfd/elf-strtab.c:200
Andreas.
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