[Bug binutils/683] New: Bug in bfd/elflink.c

[alx_s at hotmail dot com]

I encountered this problem trying to build GCC 3.4 on Solaris with GNU ld and 
as.
It crashed during bootstrap process. After some research I found the reason - it
is an undefined behaviour if you are trying to calculate a difference between 2
pointers which are not part of the same array. I a real world you can get a
problem if a difference between 2 addresses is not a multiple of an object 
size. 

An offending line:
Line 2703: long sdiff = h1->root.u.def.section - h2->root.u.def.section;

How to reproduce:
$ ../gcc-3.4.3/configure --enable-languages=c++ --enable-threads=posix \
 --with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/local/bin/gas \
 --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/local/bin/gld
$ make bootstrap

GNU as and ld are installed as /usr/local/bin/gas and /usr/local/bin/gld
on my machine.

-- 
           Summary: Bug in bfd/elflink.c
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.15
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: alx_s at hotmail dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.9
  GCC host triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.9
GCC target triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.9


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=683

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