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Re: Configure test hangs on powerpc64-linux
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:44:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: Configure test hangs on powerpc64-linux
- References: <20061126023600.GA4218@nevyn.them.org>
> It never returns from ppc64_elf_gc_mark_hook (spins looking things up
> in a hash table, I don't have the matching source handy). I expect
> this is fixed in later binutils, but has anyone else seen this happen?
> Is there some way we can avoid an infinite loop in configure for this
> case?
The test needs to check that --gc-sections works, so indirectly invoking
ppc64_elf_gc_mark_hook seems to be unavoidable. You could try to tweak the
contents of the sections if you understand why ppc64_elf_gc_mark_hook loops.
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Eric Botcazou