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Re: binutils-2.17: --cref broken? Extra warnings and corrupted data
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Paul Nash <nashpaulr at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:33:50 +0930
- Subject: Re: binutils-2.17: --cref broken? Extra warnings and corrupted data
- References: <e6f772530607152341w5456bdfbm939c9f4b6a76d1f1@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:41:23PM -0700, Paul Nash wrote:
> I determined with gdb that at the time add_cref is called,
> h->root.string is a valid string pointer. What's causing the problem
> is that later when the cref table is output, the underlying memory
> behind that pointer has been corrupted. In one case I looked at, a
> later bfd_zalloc call memset's all the memory around that string to 0.
Try reverting HJ's 2006-04-25 patch.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2006-04/msg00095.html
Please let us know if this fixes the problem for you. There are likely
to be other serious problems besides the --cref one.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre