arm-elf-ld 2.16.1 crash at bfd/elf32-arm.c:5536

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail dot com>]

arm-elf-ld crashed while linking a project compiled with GCC 4.0.1.

$ arm-elf-gcc ...
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped

It's a fairly large project and I haven't been able to boil it down to
a small test case yet, but here's the offending line and the
backtrace. I hope it's useful.

Please cc me in your reply. Cheers,
Shaun

$ gdb /usr/local/arm-elf/bin/ld core.21836
...
#0  0x0807784f in elf32_arm_compare_mapping (a=0x2ad0e788, b=0x2ad0e788)
    at ../../bfd/elf32-arm.c:5536
5536      return ((const elf32_arm_section_map *) a)->vma
(gdb) p ((const elf32_arm_section_map *) a)
$1 = (const struct elf32_elf_section_map *) 0x2ad0e788
(gdb) p *((const elf32_arm_section_map *) a)
Cannot access memory at address 0x2ad0e788
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0807784f in elf32_arm_compare_mapping (a=0x2ad0e788, b=0x2ad0e788)
    at ../../bfd/elf32-arm.c:5536
#1  0x0097d6a4 in _quicksort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0x0097dc40 in qsort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3  0x0807789a in elf32_arm_write_section (output_bfd=0x8900290,
    sec=0x8a40424, contents=0x8c5fb78 "empty\nï\021\002")
    at ../../bfd/elf32-arm.c:5562
#4  0x0808bf6b in elf_link_input_bfd (finfo=0xbff324f0, input_bfd=0x89cd050)
    at ../../bfd/elflink.c:7356
#5  0x0808e64b in bfd_elf_final_link (abfd=0x8900290, info=0x80d9220)
    at ../../bfd/elflink.c:8163
#6  0x08059dea in ldwrite () at ../../ld/ldwrite.c:554
#7  0x08057848 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbff32644) at ../../ld/ldmain.c:467