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Re: gas dwarf2 assert failure for misaligned sections?

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: amodra at bigpond dot net dot au
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:11:46 -0500
Subject: Re: gas dwarf2 assert failure for misaligned sections?
References: <200211252138.gAPLc1B24961@greed.delorie.com> <20021126055937.GI949@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

> The address skips are encoded in units of DWARF2_LINE_MIN_INSN_LENGTH
> for efficiency on processors that have fixed instruction size larger
> than one byte (or all multiples of some value).  You've just put
> nonsense in the instruction stream.

Yeah, I knew that.  But what if the user knows that, and knows what
he's doing?

> > $ ./as-new -gdwarf2 dj.s 
> > dj.s: Assembler messages:
> > dj.s:4: Internal error!
> > Assertion failure in size_inc_line_addr at ../../src/gas/dwarf2dbg.c line 616.
> > Please report this bug.
> 
> I guess we should be emitting a normal error here rather than using
> an assert.

I'll work up a patch.  Suggestions for wording?

References:
- gas dwarf2 assert failure for misaligned sections?
  - From: DJ Delorie
- Re: gas dwarf2 assert failure for misaligned sections?
  - From: Alan Modra

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