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Nick Tarleton <nickptar@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I recently built binutils 2.13 for h8300-hitachi-hms target (default
> configuration otherwise) under Mandrake-Linux 9.0. When I use ld to
> generate an S-record file, it crashes ("Segmentation fault"), but
> still produces valid output. However, this means I can't use gcc or
> make for linking, since they delete the output in the case of a
> linker crash. gdb says it happens somewhere in malloc. Hating
> non-graphical debuggers, I can't proceed any further that way. There
> is no "core" file.
>
> Has anyone had this problem before? How can I increase the stack
> size? (I had this problem before under djgpp with another self-build,
> and I seem to remember it was a stack overflow, and using the
> "stubedit" program to enlarge the stack helped. If I could find the
> core file, I could verify that. DJGPP does its coredumps to stderr,
> so it was easy.)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Note: You *can* build binutils (2.11 at least) under djgpp; you just
> have to configure with --disable-bfd-assembler. I also tried gcc
> 2.95, and it was semi-successful, but it had problems that I can't
> remember at the moment.
Known problem. Search this newsgroup. Last known working version:
binutils-2.12.
I've been fiddling with this recently, and believe it to be caused by
something writing outside a malloced block, and trashing malloc's control
information.
Anyone skilled in malloc debugging out there?
Max.
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