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binutils package

ld segfault linking qemu-alpha-static on armel

Bug #759507 reported by Steve Langasek on 2011-04-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	binutils (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: binutils

qemu-linaro is failing to build on armel due to a segfault when linking the alpha emulator:

LINK alpha-linux-user/qemu-alpha
collect2: ld terminated with signal 7 [Bus error]

The full command being run is:

ld --build-id --no-add-needed -Bstatic -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.3 -X --hash-style=gnu -m armelf_linux_eabi -z relro -o qemu-alpha /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/../../../crt1.o /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/../../../crti.o /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/crtbeginT.o -L/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2 -L/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/../../.. -L/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi --warn-common -Bsymbolic-functions -Bsymbolic-functions -T../config-host.ld -T /builddir/qemu-linaro-0.14.50-2011.03-1/arm.ld main.o syscall.o strace.o mmap.o signal.o thunk.o elfload.o linuxload.o uaccess.o gdbstub.o cpu-uname.o qemu-malloc.o osdep.o oslib-posix.o ../libuser/envlist.o ../libuser/path.o ../libuser/tcg-runtime.o ../libuser/host-utils.o ../libuser/cutils.o ../libuser/cache-utils.o ../libdis-user/alpha-dis.o ../libdis-user/arm-dis.o exec.o translate-all.o cpu-exec.o translate.o tcg/tcg.o fpu/softfloat.o op_helper.o helper.o disas.o ../trace.o -lrt -lpthread -lm --start-group -lgcc -lgcc_eh -lc --end-group /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/crtend.o /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.2/../../../crtn.o

backtrace:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4033c948 in memcpy () at ../ports/sysdeps/arm/memcpy.S:259
259 ../ports/sysdeps/arm/memcpy.S: No such file or directory.
        in ../ports/sysdeps/arm/memcpy.S
(gdb) bt
#0 0x4033c948 in memcpy () at ../ports/sysdeps/arm/memcpy.S:259
#1 0x0003422c in sha1_process_bytes (buffer=0x403c907e, len=704538,
    ctx=0xbefb8dc0) at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:52
#2 0x4028655c in bfd_elf32_checksum_contents (abfd=0xc75c28,
    process=0x34178 <sha1_process_bytes>, arg=0xbefb8dc0)
    at ../../bfd/elfcode.h:1209
#3 0x0002cd84 in gldarmelf_linux_eabi_write_build_id_section (abfd=0xc75c28)
    at earmelf_linux_eabi.c:1393
#4 0x40292adc in _bfd_elf_write_object_contents (abfd=0xc75c28)
    at ../../bfd/elf.c:5207
#5 0x4025f424 in bfd_close (abfd=0xc75c28) at ../../bfd/opncls.c:706
#6 0x000211d4 in main (argc=7812, argv=0x43) at ../../ld/ldmain.c:519