objdump bug report

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Michael Peter wrote:

> investigated: infinite traversing a ring linked list
>
> backtrace generated by gdb:
>
> Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> 0x080517e5 in debug_get_real_type (handle=0x80d3258, type=0x81031c8, list=0x0)
>     at debug.c:2187

This is due to a miscompilation of debug_get_real_type; gcc
thinks it can apply a tail-call-optimization.
Please update your gcc.  See also
<URL:http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-12/msg00372.html>.

> A complete typescript is also available from: http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~peter/public_html/objdump-bug/typescript

It might not matter, but that's 403:d:
"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~peter/public_html/objdump-bug/typescript on this server."


> PS: A first try to bug-binutils@gnu.org failed with an EXIM-generated
> error message.

I don't know what that means.

brgds, H-P