Noticed while investigating the behavior of .rofixup % cat a.s .globl foo foo: bx lr .data .long foo % ./bin/as-new --fdpic a.s -o a.o && ./bin/ld-new -m armelf_linux_fdpiceabi a.o -o a ./bin/ld-new: warning: a.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack ./bin/ld-new: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker [1] 3777145 segmentation fault ./bin/ld-new -m armelf_linux_fdpiceabi a.o -o a (gdb) bt #0 0x00005555556f9220 in allocate_dynrelocs_for_symbol (h=0x5555557d5348, inf=0x5555557acf80 <link_info>) at ../../../bfd/elf32-arm.c:16704 #1 0x00005555556e6892 in bfd_link_hash_traverse (htab=htab@entry=0x5555557d4950, func=func@entry=0x5555556f8ba0 <allocate_dynrelocs_for_symbol>, info=info@entry=0x5555557acf80 <link_info>) at ../../../bfd/linker.c:674 #2 0x000055555570dc8b in elf_link_hash_traverse (info=0x5555557acf80 <link_info>, f=0x5555556f8ba0 <allocate_dynrelocs_for_symbol>, table=0x5555557d4950) at ../../../bfd/elf-bfd.h:787 #3 elf32_arm_size_dynamic_sections (output_bfd=0x5555557d2830, info=0x5555557acf80 <link_info>) at ../../../bfd/elf32-arm.c:16986 #4 0x0000555555738ba9 in bfd_elf_size_dynamic_sections (output_bfd=<optimized out>, soname=<optimized out>, rpath=rpath@entry=0x0, filter_shlib=0x0, audit=audit@entry=0x0, depaudit=0x0, auxiliary_filters=0x0, info=0x5555557acf80 <link_info>, sinterpptr=0x7fffffffd3 68) at ../../../bfd/elflink.c:7488 #5 0x00005555556d803b in ldelf_before_allocation (audit=<optimized out>, depaudit=<optimized out>, default_interpreter_name=0x0) at ../../../ld/ldelf.c:1839 #6 0x00005555556bfb9b in lang_process () at ../../../ld/ldlang.c:8423 #7 0x00005555556c4680 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ../../../ld/ldmain.c:504