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Re: gold linker 2.22 regressed for DragonFly
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: John Marino <binutils at marino dot st>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:58:50 -0800
- Subject: Re: gold linker 2.22 regressed for DragonFly
- References: <4ED7FCA6.8090706@marino.st>
John Marino <binutils@marino.st> writes:
> When binutils 2.21 was imported into DragonFly, gold could successful
> link world and kernel, but not the kernel modules. When binutils 2.22
> was imported, gold can no longer even link itself.
>
> After executing "gmake check-TESTS", the new version of gold linked by
> gold segfaults immediately. The General_Options->format() method
> returns null, crashing string_to_object_format in options.cc. I'm not
> very strong in C++, so I'm having trouble figuring out why format() is
> not getting defined, or what has changed between gold 2.21 and gold
> 2.22.
>
> The backtrace is attached. I'm sure somebody here should be able to
> point me to code that should be modified to support DragonFly BSD.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> The program being debugged has been started already.
> Start it from the beginning? (y or n)
> Starting program: /home/marino/workzone/test-222/gold/ld1
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000000000052e534 in gold::General_options::string_to_object_format (arg=0x0)
> at ../../binutils-2.22/gold/options.cc:655
> 655 if (strncmp(arg, "elf", 3) == 0)
> #0 0x000000000052e534 in gold::General_options::string_to_object_format (
> arg=0x0) at ../../binutils-2.22/gold/options.cc:655
string_to_object_format is being called with a NULL pointer.
> #1 0x000000000053b5e2 in format_enum (this=0x62a5fe)
> at ../../binutils-2.22/gold/options.cc:937
This line is
return General_options::string_to_object_format(this->format());
so this->format() is return a NULL string.
That should not happen. this->format() is going to return the value of
this->format_.value. That should be initialized to "elf" and nothing
should ever change it to NULL. In this case "this" appears to refer to
the static variable Position_dependent_options::default_options_.
I'm not aware of anything that has changed in this area between binutils
2.21 and 2.22. The same code is in 2.21.
I guess I would debug it by verifying that
Position_independent_options::default_options_.format_.value is in fact
initialized to "elf". If not, why not? If it is, when does it change?
Ian