From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Paul Nash <nashpaulr@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: binutils-2.17: --cref broken? Extra warnings and corrupted data
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060717020350.GH18571@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6f772530607152341w5456bdfbm939c9f4b6a76d1f1@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:41:23PM -0700, Paul Nash wrote:
> I determined with gdb that at the time add_cref is called,
> h->root.string is a valid string pointer. What's causing the problem
> is that later when the cref table is output, the underlying memory
> behind that pointer has been corrupted. In one case I looked at, a
> later bfd_zalloc call memset's all the memory around that string to 0.
Try reverting HJ's 2006-04-25 patch.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2006-04/msg00095.html
Please let us know if this fixes the problem for you. There are likely
to be other serious problems besides the --cref one.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-17 2:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-16 6:41 Paul Nash
2006-07-17 2:03 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2006-07-17 22:30 ` H. J. Lu
2006-07-17 22:53 ` H. J. Lu
2006-07-18 3:04 ` Alan Modra
2006-07-18 16:28 ` Paul R. Nash
2006-07-18 17:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-07-19 1:54 ` Alan Modra
2006-07-19 3:44 ` Paul R. Nash
2006-07-19 4:23 ` Alan Modra
2006-07-19 16:33 ` Paul R. Nash
2006-07-18 16:08 ` Paul R. Nash
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