Absolute symbols crash ld 2.15 (2.14 used to be OK)

[Vincent Amiot]

The simple assembly code below crashes ld

 

(comes from investigation about using ld with an older Ada compiler)

 

Can you help?

 

Best regards

 

V. Amiot

 

 

 

 

bash-2.05b$ ld --version                                                 

GNU ld version 2.15.91 20040725                                           

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                             

This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of 

the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty. 

 

k.s:

 

.set X, 1239

.global X

 

 

bash-2.05b$ gcc -o k.o k.s -c

bash-2.05b$ ld k.o

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

bash-2.05b$

 

 

bash-2.05b$ gdb  --args ld k.o

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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...

(gdb) r

Starting program: /usr/bin/ld.exe k.o

 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

0x00440936 in coff_link_add_symbols (abfd=0xa061b98, info=0x4aa0d0) at ../../bfd/cofflink.c:455

455                   if (! (bfd_coff_link_add_one_symbol

(gdb) l

450                     addit = FALSE;

451                 }

452

453               if (addit)

454                 {

455                   if (! (bfd_coff_link_add_one_symbol

456                          (info, abfd, name, flags, section, value,

457                           (const char *) NULL, copy, FALSE,

458                           (struct bfd_link_hash_entry **) sym_hash)))

459                     goto error_return;

(gdb) q

 

 

bash-2.05b$ popd

/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/La Jolla Old/ISS/libs/PE

bash-2.05b$ objdump -t k.o

 

k.o:     file format pe-i386

 

SYMBOL TABLE:

[  0](sec -2)(fl 0x00)(ty   0)(scl 103) (nx 1) 0x00000000 fake

File

[  2](sec  1)(fl 0x00)(ty   0)(scl   3) (nx 1) 0x00000000 .text

AUX scnlen 0x0 nreloc 0 nlnno 0

[  4](sec  2)(fl 0x00)(ty   0)(scl   3) (nx 1) 0x00000000 .data

AUX scnlen 0x0 nreloc 0 nlnno 0

[  6](sec  3)(fl 0x00)(ty   0)(scl   3) (nx 1) 0x00000000 .bss

AUX scnlen 0x0 nreloc 0 nlnno 0

[  8](sec -1)(fl 0x00)(ty   0)(scl   2) (nx 0) 0x000004d7 X