ld dumping core on large objects when there are unresolved refs

[Kris Warkentin]

I was hoping to find out if anyone else had observed this.  I looked the the
mailing list archives but didn't immediately see anything.  A customer gave
us a number of large object files that, if linked, produce a valid
executable.  If the linker command line is missing one of the objects,
rather than getting unresolved references, we just dump core.  I'm trying to
get a reproducable case with code that I can actually compile (so I can see
if the problem exists for other platforms than QNX).

Anyway, it's coring in the bfd lib when it tries to do a 16 bit endian swap
on some memory reference that is out of bounds.  Anyone seen anything like
this?

cheers,

Kris

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