gcc/gdb/as/ld issue
Andy Chittenden
achittenden@bluearc.com
Fri Mar 19 15:05:00 GMT 2004
Despite much effort I've not been able to reproduce the problem with a small
test case. However, the patch in this email fixes the problem:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00387.html. Any chance of
getting that applied as an update to 2.14?
--
Andy, BlueArc Engineering
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Clifton [mailto:nickc@redhat.com]
> Sent: 12 March 2004 11:25
> To: Andy Chittenden
> Cc: 'binutils@sources.redhat.com'
> Subject: Re: gcc/gdb/as/ld issue
>
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> > We've recently started to use partially linked images for
> some of our
> > libraries in order to speed up the final link (ie we use -r
> option with
> > --whole-archive). And this has stopped gdb working with:
> >
> > ../../src/gdb/gdbtypes.c:515: gdb-internal-error:
> make_cv_type: Assertion
> > `TYPE_OBJFILE (*typeptr) == TYPE_OBJFILE (type) ||
> TYPE_STUB (*typeptr)'
> > failed.
> >
> > Is this a bug in ld when generating partial images given
> that it works if I
> > use whole libraries generated by ar instead?
> >
> > FYI we're configuring the toolchain for powerpc-eabi target.
>
> There is definitely a bug somewhere, although at this stage we cannot
> tell whether it is in the linker or gdb. Please could you put
> together a *small* testcase that demonstrates the problem, so that it
> can be investigated further ?
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>
>
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