Re: elflink.c assertion failure during glibc build

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:43:00AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:23:41PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > cat > 1.c <<EOF
> > int __attribute__((weak)) foo (void) { return 1; }
> > EOF
> > cat > 2.c <<EOF
> > int old_foo (void) { return 2; }
> > int new_foo (void) { return 3; }
> > asm (".symver old_foo, foo@GLIBC_2.0");
> > asm (".symver new_foo, foo@@GLIBC_2.3.4");
> > EOF
> > gcc -O2 -fpic -r -o test.o 1.c 2.c
> > 
> > (simplified testcase from glibc on PPC{,64}) gives:
> > ld: BFD 2.15.90 20040312 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:1391
> > (on all arches I've tried).
> > 
> 
> This patch works for me.

Why can't we just remove the assert?  Seems to me that the assert is
demonstrably wrong.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre