-gsframe makes binutils 2.44 crash

[Claudiu Zissulescu-Ianculescu]

Hi Samuel,

It seems you hit this bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32879

There is in motion a new patch which will disable the SFrame building
for binutils < 2.45.

Thank you,
Claudiu

On 7/22/25 11:04 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While trying to build glibc on a Debian 13 system, I am getting a crash
> while building $PWD/elf/tst-quadmod1.os:
> 
> /tmp/ccdbYXUN.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccdbYXUN.s: Internal error (Segmentation fault).
> 
> actually, reducing it down to:
> 
> $ cat /tmp/ccdbYXUN.s
>  .text
>  .cfi_startproc
>  .cfi_def_cfa_register 6
>  .cfi_endproc
> $ as -gsframe /tmp/ccdbYXUN.s -o out.o
> 
> crashes. Do we really want to enable gsframe by default already?
> 
> Samuel
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  sframe_xlate_do_def_cfa_register (xlate_ctx=0x555555668580, cfi_insn=0x555555665030) at ../../gas/gen-sframe.c:146
> #1  sframe_do_cfi_insn (xlate_ctx=<optimized out>, cfi_insn=0x555555665030) at ../../gas/gen-sframe.c:1378
> #2  sframe_do_fde (xlate_ctx=0x555555668580, dw_fde=0x555555664ef0) at ../../gas/gen-sframe.c:1456
> #3  create_sframe_all () at ../../gas/gen-sframe.c:1525
> #4  output_sframe (sframe_seg=<optimized out>) at ../../gas/gen-sframe.c:1553
> #5  cfi_finish () at ../../gas/dw2gencfi.c:2516
> #6  0x00005555555a3c21 in cfi_finish () at ../bfd/bfd.h:2501
> #7  main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ../../gas/as.c:1465