RE: Segmentation Fault using cross architecture ld command

["John Morrison" <JMorrison at printronix dot com>]

Hi Alan.

I don't know if you want this or someone else, but here is the results
from gdb 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0806bdda in bfd_putb32 (data=1317011489, p=0xbf9b12c) at
/home/morr_jo/work/ToolChain/cross/src/binutils-2.17/bfd/libbfd.c:696
696       addr[0] = (data >> 24) & 0xff;
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0806bdda in bfd_putb32 (data=1317011489, p=0xbf9b12c) at
/home/morr_jo/work/ToolChain/cross/src/binutils-2.17/bfd/libbfd.c:696
#1  0x0807f370 in ppc_elf_finish_dynamic_sections (output_bfd=0x912a9c0,
info=0x80ff920) at
/home/morr_jo/work/ToolChain/cross/src/binutils-2.17/bfd/elf32-ppc.c:715
3
#2  0x08097562 in bfd_elf_final_link (abfd=0x912a9c0, info=0x80ff920) at
/home/morr_jo/work/ToolChain/cross/src/binutils-2.17/bfd/elflink.c:8651
#3  0x0805ab1c in ldwrite () at
/home/morr_jo/work/ToolChain/cross/src/binutils-2.17/ld/ldwrite.c:557
#4  0x080587af in main (argc=49, argv=0xbfe2d094) at
/home/morr_jo/work/ToolChain/cross/src/binutils-2.17/ld/ldmain.c:468
(gdb) 


If there is anything else needed, please let me know.  This is instantly
recreatable.

I look forward to hearing from someone on this.


Thanks
John Morrison

-----Original Message-----
From: binutils-owner@sourceware.org
[mailto:binutils-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of John Morrison
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:37 AM
To: Alan Modra
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: RE: Segmentation Fault using cross architecture ld command

Hi Alan.

Thanks for the procedure to find the error.

The reason we (I) didn't go with 2.18 was because there was some problem
between binutils 2.18 and GCC 4.2.  The problem was going to be fixed in
GCC 4.3.  And, GCC 4.3 at the time we started this journey was still
beta.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Modra [mailto:amodra@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:10 AM
To: John Morrison
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault using cross architecture ld command

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:01:22PM -0700, John Morrison wrote:
> We are upgrading (understatement of the century) our cross-compiler 
> from GCC 2.95.2, binutils 2.10.1 to GCC 4.2.0, binutils 2.17.  Cross

Any reason why you didn't go to binutils 2.18?

> The problem we are getting is a "segmentation fault" on the 
> powerpc-eabi-ld.

Build binutils with debug info, eg. make CFLAGS="-g -O -fno-inline"
then run ld under gdb to see where the problem occurs.

--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM