Oops, serious ld bug cropped up

[Dave Korn]

    Hi Tristan,

  We just had a bug report(*) that compiling gettext-0.17 on cygwin leads to a
segfault in LD, and sure enough it's present on the branch:

> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/crtend.o
> Creating library file: .libs/libintl.dll.a
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0044bc09 in _bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section (output_bfd=0x1b53438,
>     info=0x4c71e0, input_bfd=0x1c21b40, input_section=0x1c22ff0,
>     contents=0x1e76690 "U\211å\203ì\030\211]ô\213]\b\211uø\211}ü\205Û\017\204¦",
>  relocs=0x1eed3e0, syms=0x1ef41a0, sections=0x1c632f8)
>     at /gnu/binutils/src-2_20/bfd/cofflink.c:2973
> 2973                          val = h2->root.u.def.value
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0044bc09 in _bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section (output_bfd=0x1b53438,
>     info=0x4c71e0, input_bfd=0x1c21b40, input_section=0x1c22ff0,
>     contents=0x1e76690 "U\211å\203ì\030\211]ô\213]\b\211uø\211}ü\205Û\017\204¦",
>  relocs=0x1eed3e0, syms=0x1ef41a0, sections=0x1c632f8)
>     at /gnu/binutils/src-2_20/bfd/cofflink.c:2973
> #1  0x0044deb5 in _bfd_coff_link_input_bfd (finfo=0x113c6fc,
>     input_bfd=0x1c21b40) at /gnu/binutils/src-2_20/bfd/cofflink.c:2348
> #2  0x0044f02f in _bfd_coff_final_link (abfd=0x1b53438, info=0x4c71e0)
>     at /gnu/binutils/src-2_20/bfd/cofflink.c:907
> #3  0x00414b3e in ldwrite () at /gnu/binutils/src-2_20/ld/ldwrite.c:568
> #4  0x00414076 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x0
> ) at /gnu/binutils/src-2_20/ld/ldmain.c:464
> (gdb)

  I'll get back in the next few hours with an assessment of how serious this is.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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(*) - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00033.html