[PATCH] SEGV whilst placing sections

[Mark Shinwell]

Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:23:18AM +0100, Mark Shinwell wrote:
>> Alan, is this test case ok for you?
> 
> Perfect.  The thing that is fooling lang_insert_orphan is that *two*
> sections are being added to the output bfd.  This comes about because
> .rodata is given a load_base in the script, and .ARM.extab is supposed
> to follow .rodata, so the orphan .ARM.extab is also given a load_base
> which consists of an expression referencing .rodata.  When adding
> .ARM.extab, its load_base expression is traversed to see whether any
> other sections are needed, and thus .rodata is added too.
> Unfortunately, .rodata is added *after* .ARM.extab, so .rodata is at the
> end of the list and thus has a NULL next pointer.  Which is where
> place->section points.

I see.  I shall apply the first patch, then.  Thanks for the help.

Mark