gcc/gdb/as/ld issue
Andy Chittenden
achittenden@bluearc.com
Fri Mar 19 16:29:00 GMT 2004
humph - it fixed it for one executable that I was testing with but not for
all the others. Still trying to get a test case - not being forthcoming.
--
Andy, BlueArc Engineering
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Chittenden
> Sent: 19 March 2004 08:38
> To: 'Nick Clifton'
> Cc: 'binutils@sources.redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: gcc/gdb/as/ld issue
>
>
> 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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