Bus error in the linker, possibly caused by tail-calls

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

I know that isn't the most informative subject line ever.

Current CVS gcc+binutils cannot create static binaries on Solaris 8.
GNU ld dies with a bus error.  A stack trace of the core was posted to
the binutils list.  The response is here, along with the trace:

    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2000-10/msg00192.html

Part of the response quoted here, just to be speedy:

    Yes, it says you have a gcc problem (if gdb is to be believed).
    Probably something to do with tail-calls.  The format string pointer
    ought to have been passed unchanged from einfo to vinfo.

I can't do anything with GNATS, so I'll ask:  is this a known bug?
Is anyone looking at it?


phil

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