bfd assertion fail elf32-mips.c:2449 on mips-sgi-irix6.5

[Bert De Knuydt]

Hello,

I get a 'BFD: bfd assertion fail elf32-mips.c:2449' while stripping on
mips-sgi.  I get this both for version 2.11.2 and '010927'.  Exactly the
same error appears when I use the GNU loader with the '-s' flag.
Other binutils tools seem to function properly.  The native strip works 
perfectly too.

> gcc -o brol brol.c
> file brol
brol:  ELF N32 MSB mips-4 dynamic executable (not stripped) MIPS - version 1
> strip.gnu brol
BFD: bfd assertion fail elf32-mips.c:2449
Segmentation fault
> strip --version
GNU strip 010927

I only get this error when I strip GCC generated binaries.  It seems to
have something to do with gcc's 'crtbegin.o' object, linked in all
executables.  This is both for gcc versions 2.95.* and 3.0.*
Objdump does not complain about this crtbegin.o file.

Line 2449 of elf32-mips.c reads "BFD_ASSERT (sec != NULL);", for a section
called SHT_MIPS_CONTENT.

Now where should I start looking for to solve this ...

Bert.

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