[Bug ld/14718] ld crashes on ARMv5 due to unaligned memory access

[ambrop7 at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14718



--- Comment #8 from Ambroz Bizjak <ambrop7 at gmail dot com> 2012-10-14 
22:49:24 UTC ---

(In reply to comment #7)

> Hmm, this is beginning to be really funny. My gentoo arm system has "#define

> BFD_ARCH_SIZE 64" line in /usr/include/bfd.h, resulting in 64-bit vma 
> typedefs.

> I guess such weird configuration is a prerequisite for triggering this

> alignment issue. The culprit is gentoo toolchain-binutils.eclass which is

> forcing --enable-64-bit-bfd configure option. The architectures like ARM 
> surely

> have lots of spare RAM to waste... Looks like at least this part of the 
> problem

> needs to be solved on gentoo side.



Yeah, that seems to have triggered it, but the bug is still entirely in

binutils. Even if you don't pass --enable-64-bit-bfd for ARM toolchain, this

will still happen for an ARM->x86_64 cross toolchain (for whatever reason

someone would need that).



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