Bug 5755

on a powerpc host, i upgraded from 2.18.50.0.3 (which is working) to 2.18.50.0.4
and now building binutils-2.17 for a Blackfin target, ld aborts:

$ make size
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2   -o size  size.o bucomm.o version.o
filemode.o ../bfd/libbfd.la ../libiberty/libiberty.a
gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -o size
size.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o  ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/4.2.2/../../../../powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
size of bfd_vma > size of splay_tree types
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/4.2.2/../../../../powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
BFD (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.0.4.20080208 internal error, aborting at
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18.50.0.4/work/binutils-2.18.50.0.4/bfd/arange-set.c
line 202 in arange_set_new

/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/4.2.2/../../../../powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
Please report this bug.

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [size] Error 1