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Re: Increment
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? 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. Perhaps you are
hitting a compiler bug?
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre