[PATCH] SEGV whilst placing sections

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:34:38AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:08:52PM +0100, Mark Shinwell wrote:
> > In this case, the "after" parameter to lang_insert_orphan () corresponds
> > to the .rodata section, the last in the linked list of "asection"s.
> > The upshot is that place->section points at the "next" entry of the final
> > section in the list, .rodata.  This "next" pointer is NULL, so "as" ends up
> > NULL, and we fault when "as->prev" is computed.
> 
> > +      if (!as)
> > +        {
> > +          /* Put the section at the end of the list.  */
> 
> Isn't the section already at the end of the list in this case?

I'm not sure I really followed this, but I think the answer is no.  The
.rodata section is at the end of list, but that's not snew; snew is
.ARM.extab instead.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery