SIGSEGV in ld at elflink.h:5500

[John David Anglin]

> > 2002-07-10  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
> > 
> > 	* merge.c (_bfd_merge_section): Remove redundant output_section check.
> > 	Formatting.
> > 	(_bfd_merge_sections): Don't set SEC_EXCLUDE on unused sections.
> 
> bash-2.05a$ ./ld --version
> GNU ld version 2.12.90 20020716
> 
> As shown in the original gdb output, the output section is *ABS* which
> doesn't seem resonable for the symbol which is a weak function.  I

Looking at the history of the above, I see that the bug being fixed
had sym_sec->output_section set to bfd_abs_section.  The code in this
case was also being compiled with "-ffunction-sections" and we seem to
have the same problem, but on hppa64.

Dave
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