BFD 2.14.90 20040210 assertion fail ... bfd/stabs.c:792

[Christian Joensson]

When running the ld testsuite from binutils 2.14.90 20040210, for
example, on cygwin, I get a FAIL in NOCROSSREFS 2 due to this.

Running /usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/crossref.exp ...
gcc -L/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld 
-B/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld/tmpdir/gas/ 
-I/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts -g -O2  -c 
/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross1.c -o tmpdir/cross1.o
gcc -L/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld 
-B/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld/tmpdir/gas/ 
-I/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts -g -O2  -c 
/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross2.c -o tmpdir/cross2.o
/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new  -o tmpdir/cross1 -T 
/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross1.t tmpdir/cross1.o 
tmpdir/cross2.o
tmpdir/cross1.o(.text+0x5): In function `func':
/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross1.c:5: prohibited cross 
reference from .text to `foo' in .data
PASS: NOCROSSREFS 1
gcc -L/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld 
-B/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld/tmpdir/gas/ 
-I/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts -g -O2  -c 
/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross3.c -o tmpdir/cross3.o
/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new  -o tmpdir/cross2 -T 
/usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross2.t tmpdir/cross3.o
/usr/local/src/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new: BFD 2.14.90 20040210 assertion fail 
/usr/local/src/trunk/src/bfd/stabs.c:792
FAIL: NOCROSSREFS 2
testcase /usr/local/src/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/crossref.exp 
completed in 2 seconds

See also http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-02/msg00105.html
and especially http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-02/msg00111.html.

Cheers,

/ChJ