Bug in gcc and egcs with .linkonce
Mumit Khan
khan@xraylith.wisc.edu
Fri Aug 28 14:37:00 GMT 1998
scheidhr@dfki.de (Ralf Scheidhauer) writes:
>
> Maybe the following is a known problem, but I could not find any
> reference to it so far.
>
There were a few references here (I remember a few, eg., the one from
Mark Salazar), but mostly directly to me via private email. I have about
25 messages in my queue with various testcases that show this same bug.
> Looking at the assembler code, the reason seems to be the
> ".linkonce discard" being used for the inline function. Unfortunately
> a ".text" gets in front of the jump table being generated for the
> switch statement. It then crashes if "bug" is not being inlined.
You're right about the mysterious .text (which is really the output from
readonly_data_section, which for x86-win32 is .text, not .rdata yet), and
I just figure out why the C front end insists on doing this.
> Anyone know how to fix that? Otherwise I cannot debug my application
> at all! I puzzles me that no one else has had that problem before???
>
If I knew how to fix it, it would be fixed by now ;-) I've been ignoring
this since there is a easy workaround (and easy to spot, since your
program simply crashes), but it's in the egcs-bugs list and will get
looked at eventually.
Regards,
Mumit
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