[Bug ld/16139] ld/mips: abort in _bfd_merged_section_offset

[amodra at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16139

Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> ---
I'm inclined to close this bug as likely to be due to a hardware fault, but
I'll leave it open for the time being.  The occasional bit-flip in memory is
known to trigger this internal error in bfd/merge.c.  I've seen bit-flips
myself, and am 100% sure that the cases I saw were really hardware errors and
not some wild pointer write corrupting the buffer that bfd/merge.c was
operating on.

I've also seen this error with projects that have Makefile dependency problems.
 Using make -j can lead to ld trying to link an object file before it has been
completely written..  There are of course other possibilities that might lead
to a make -j race, eg. a kernel failing to invalidate cache or returning too
early from a dma operation.

If these problems are not reproducible when running make without -j, and
running ld under valgrind doesn't show uninitialized memory reads (I've done
that), then it's probably not a binutils bug.

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