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Re: ld --as-needed assertion fail, BFD internal error and crash

From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:29:55 +0300
Subject: Re: ld --as-needed assertion fail, BFD internal error and crash
References: <20060315172001.GA13434@basalt.office.altlinux.org> <44185661.8050603@redhat.com>

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:01:05PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >While building random packages with ld --as-needed to evaluate this
> >extension, I found few cases where ld fails within BFD:
> >http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2434
> >Looks like --as-needed is not widely used and therefore not tested well.
> 
> The attached patch appears to fix this problem, but I am not sure that 
> it is the correct solution.

This patch is least not sufficient, second test still fails with 76
assertions instead of 300 (in this test h->u.weakdef->root.type may also
take value bfd_link_hash_indirect).


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References:
- ld --as-needed assertion fail, BFD internal error and crash
  - From: Dmitry V. Levin
- Re: ld --as-needed assertion fail, BFD internal error and crash
  - From: Nick Clifton

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