A weird bug

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:18 PM Gary Oblock via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I've been trying to debug a linker error (which I thought was a bug in
> my optimization.) Well it turns out it occurs in a brand new virgin
> version of the compiler running with binutils 2.36 which is the latest
> version. I'm posting this on both the binutils list and gcc list
> because people of either list are just as likely to have an idea about
> what's going on. Note, I tried to walk though the ld code in gdb but
> it's nontrivial trying figure out why an error occured. I can't just
> set a watch point on a flag because, at least in some places it seems
> like the default state of the flag is failure and the code then
> proceeds to try various things to see if they'll work.
>
> Regarding the compiler that I built:

Here are scripts I used to build Linux/x86-64 GCC toolchain:

https://gitlab.com/hjl.tools/x86-64-linux-toolchain

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H.J.