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Re: libbfd crashes when linking in elf_i386_relocate_section
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Fabian Wenzel <wenzel at tu-harburg dot de>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:48:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: libbfd crashes when linking in elf_i386_relocate_section
- References: <40DC29C3.9080603@tu-harburg.de>
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:33:55PM +0200, Fabian Wenzel wrote:
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> Hi all!
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> A month ago I already posted this error to gnu.utils.bug, but apparently
> the list is not working currently (I wrote a follow-up today, but it did
> not appear in the newsgroup).
>
> The problem is that the linker crashes when linking an own application with
>
> /usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.14.90.0.7 20031029 Debian GNU/Linux internal error,
> aborting at ../../bfd/elf32-i386.c line 2247 in elf_i386_relocate_section
>
> I already tried binutils 2.15 which I built from the original tarball,
> but the error remained.
>
> This problem suddently appeared; I did not make any changes to the code
> which was building correctly for years. I did some debugging and found
> out that the linker crashes as soon as two of three "critical" objects
> are linked together.
>
> The abort() is called in the following lines:
>
> if (off >= (bfd_vma) -2)
> ~ abort ();
>
> I added some tracing code and figured out that it is indeed caused by
> one of the "critical" object files with section *UND*.
>
> If there is more that I can do in order to locate the problem, it would
> be great if you could let me know. I am a little lost and don't know if
> I am trying to figure things out in the right direction.
Please open a bugzilla bug report and provide a small testcase.
H.J.