Re: objdump 2.11

[Giles]

On 7 Dec 2001, Nick Clifton wrote:

> Hi Giles,
> 
> > > Is this version 2.11 or 2.11.2 ?  The latter version appears to work
> > > fine for me.  (On an x86 host).  What host/target combination were you
> > > using ?  How does the program fail ?
> > 
> > 2.11.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu (host & target)
> > 
> > It gets as far as printing
> > 
> >  /usr/include/libio.h:
> > typedef void _IO_lock_t;
> > struct _IO_marker { /* size 12 id 57 */
> >   struct _IO_marker /* id 57 */ *_next; /* bitsize 32, bitpos 0 */
> >   struct _IO_FILE /* id 18 */ *_sbuf; /* bitsize 32, bitpos 32 */
> >   int _pos; /* bitsize 32, bitpos 64 */
> > };
> > 
> > And then hangs:
> 
> Hmm, I believe I have the same kind of environment as you and yet it
> works for me.  Of course I am using the 2.11.2 sources from the CVS
> server rather than the FTP archive.  Would it be possible for you to
> downlaod the latest source snapshot and see if this has the problem as
> well ?

Yes, this failed in exactly the same way.

This is looking more like a compiler bug (tail call optimization gone
wrong).  (I'm using "gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)"; it also
failed with 2.95.) 

Thanks for your time.



Giles



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