Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 1997 18:18:45 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id:	<199711050218.SAA15024@adit.ap.net>
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
From:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject:	Re: objdump 2.7 crash
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 10:31  11/4/1997 +0100, Robert Hoehne wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> The objdump from Binutils 2.7 crashed on me today. Here's the specifics:
>> 
>[snip]
>> Okay, the big question: Does it still happen with objdump 2.8.1?  I don't
>> know. I only have 2.7, and I don't have FTP to get 2.8.1 and find out. If
>> anybody reproduces this, or investigates it further, I'd like to know. I'm
>> not sure if this is a GNU bug or one specific to DJGPP, and I also don't
>> know if perhaps it's been fixed.
>
>This problem is well known to me (I got it also). And it is definitely
>a GNU bug but I don't know exact now, if it is fixed in 2.8.1 but
>as far as I remember it should be fixed (or at least it crashes not so
>often).
>
>I cannot say where exactly the bug is (in binutils or in gcc) because
>at least gcc has a bug (which I have posted to the g++ bug list) which
>produces wrong stabs under special situations.
Okay, thanks for the information.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net

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