gnu ld 2.12 segmentation fault under Solaris

[Andrew Koenig]

In early June, I reported a bug that causes gnu ld 2.12 to crash
under Solaris 2.8.  I can now also reproduce the problem under
Solaris 2.7.

Version:  Gnu ld 2.12.1, compiled on gcc 3.1.1

Symptom:

$ ld <Tcl library>/libtcl8.3.so
Segmentation Fault - core dumped
$ gdb <Gnu ld binary> core
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.7"...
Core was generated by `ld <Tcl library>libtcl8.3.so'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1
#0  _bfd_elf_section_from_bfd_section (abfd=0xea4c8, asect=0x0) at elf.c:4083
4083    elf.c: No such file or directory.
        in elf.c
(gdb) bt
#0  _bfd_elf_section_from_bfd_section (abfd=0xea4c8, asect=0x0) at elf.c:4083
#1  0x000424b0 in elf_link_add_object_symbols (abfd=0xea4c8, info=0xd77e0)
    at elflink.h:1450
#2  0x00018974 in load_symbols (entry=0xd8c10, place=0xffbefbc8) at 
ldlang.c:1571
#3  0x000193dc in open_input_bfds (s=0xd8c10, force=false) at ldlang.c:1969
#4  0x0001c4b4 in lang_process () at ldlang.c:4126
#5  0x0001f010 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffbefd3c) at ldmain.c:402


As before, libtcl8.3.so is as distributed by ActiveState.

I won't repeat the mistake of posting its entire contents to this list,
but if you send me email, I'll send you a copy.

-- 
Andrew Koenig, address@hidden, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark