[LV] Status of the toolchain build scripts?

Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de
Tue Jun 19 14:04:48 CEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-19 11:26:50 +0200, Mikkel Lauritsen <mikkel-vax at tala.dk> wrote:
[...]
> Having done this, I now have a piece of GCC generated assembly code that
> makes the assember go boom - or rather, causes glibc to emit a message
> about having detected memory corruption.

I trust glibc here.

> The backtrace seems pretty innocuous; I'd be more than happy to provide it
> (or the assembly code) to anybody who has deeper insight into the inner
> workings of the assembler.
> 
> I have bisected the input file, and as long as there are no more than 1102
> lines in it the assembler works fine. Increasing the number of lines causes
> a segmentation fault, followed by the memory corruption if I increase the
> size even further.

Is it really depend it on number of lines?  Would be more plausible if
it was a simple filesize problem.

> So - my initial conclusion is that the assembler has a memory management
> problem, and I'm going to try to see if I can dig deeper into it.

Would you cut'n'paste gas's backtrace? Maybe it's possible to guess
the cause for the corruption by seeing where it crashes afterwards.

MfG, JBG

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