Bug 3953 - ld crashes upon use of .gnu.warning.<symbol> sections
Summary: ld crashes upon use of .gnu.warning.<symbol> sections
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: binutils
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ld (show other bugs)
Version: 2.17
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: unassigned
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-02-02 01:07 UTC by Bruno Haible
Modified: 2007-02-14 14:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Host: i586-suse-linux
Target: i586-suse-linux
Build: i586-suse-linux
Last reconfirmed:

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2007-02-02 01:09 UTC, Bruno Haible 		Details
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Description Bruno Haible 2007-02-02 01:07:41 UTC 
A simple program intended to emit a warning messages crashes the linker. 
 
foo.s is attached (created from gcc-3.3.1 output) 
$ as -o foo.o foo.s 
$ ld foo.o /lib/libc.so.6 
foo.o: In function `main': 
foo.c:(.text+0x1): warning: function strstr is deprecated 
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 08048158 
Segmentation fault
Comment 1 Bruno Haible 2007-02-02 01:09:07 UTC 
Created attachment 1529 [details]
Input to the assembler
Comment 2 H.J. Lu 2007-02-02 19:52:23 UTC 
A patch is posted at

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-02/msg00022.html
Comment 3 H.J. Lu 2007-02-03 07:31:17 UTC 
I got a positive feedback.
Comment 4 H.J. Lu 2007-02-14 14:37:55 UTC 
Fixed.