[Bug ld/23906] LD Bug : Undocumented exit status 253

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23906

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi David,

> How can I assist you in isolating this issue? 

To me this sounds like a resource issue.  Ie I suspect that the linker is
running out of memory, or maybe stack space, and crashing.

Things that you can try:

  * Use a newer version of the linker.  The latest release is 2.31.1.

  * Try running the linker with its memory overhead reduction options:
    --no-keep-memory and --reduce-memory-overhead

    You may also find it useful to add the --print-memory-usage option
    to see if this produces any useful output.

  * Try using the gold linker instead of the bfd based linker.

  * Try linking on a machine with more resources available.  Or, if
    possible, a machine running a different OS.

  * Try running the linker from inside GDB, so that it might capture
    the problem.  In order to obtain the command line for the linker
    you can add -Wl,-debug to the g++ command line.

  * See if you can create a reproducible testcase that we can examine
    ourselves.  I suspect however that it might be too big to upload,
    but it would be worth a try.

Cheers
  Nick

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