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From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Increment
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:36:59PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> > 	* hash.c (bfd_hash_lookup): Correct stray line.
> 
> The linker is now crashing very often with an assertion failure in
> _bfd_elf_strtab_delref.  Apparently the hash resizing was never properly
> tested, since with the misplaced increment it was unlikely to ever
> trigger.  In fact, disabling it will fix the crashes.

How do you get these crashes?  I've built an entire powerpc biarch
toolchain, binutils+gcc+glibc+gdb, mainline cvs for everything except
gcc which was 4.1 branch cvs.  No assertions noticed.  Perhaps you are
hitting a compiler bug?

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre