h8300-elf-ld aborts with internal error when relax enabled

[nick clifton]

Hi Michael,

> I have some trouble porting 2 projects developed in 2005 with a patched
> ld from binutils-2.16 (2 patches from KPIT Renesas support) to current
> version (cvs).
> ld is used with relax enabled.

> h8300-elf-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.23.51.20130124 internal error,
> aborting at
> /home/michael/software/src/gcc_kpit_h8/ld_cvs_version/src/binutils-cvs/bfd/elf32-h8300.c
> line 286 in elf32_h8_info_to_howto

Thank you for reporting this error.

> Here is a patch to fix the bug:

And thank you even more for the fix.

> This works for me; can anyone familiar with this please verify and
> check-in this patch (i am new here) ?

The patch is just fine.  I have checked it in, along with the changelog 
entry below.  FYI, in the future, if you could report bugs, and 
potential fixes, via the binutils bugzilla system, that would really help:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/

Cheers
   Nick

bfd/ChangeLog
2013-01-25  Michael Schewe  <michael.schewe@gmx.net>

	* elf32-h8300.c (elf32_h8_relax_section): When checking for a
	second reloc, make sure that the reloc potentially exists first.