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  1. Bug #1266492
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1266492

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

So it turns out that ld hanging on the backtrace is actually glibc bug https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16159 getting tickled. Setting the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable causes it not to hang, by not trying to emit the back trace and deadlocking on reacquiring the malloc lock:

  $ MALLOC_CHECK_=2 gcc -o /tmp/conftest -fPIE -pie -static conftest.c
  collect2: error: ld terminated with signal 6 [Aborted], core dumped
  /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:13053
  /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:13053
  /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:13053
  /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:13053
  /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:13053