From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Binutils bug causes GCC bootstrap comparision failures
Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:34:12 +0300
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Found that in some cases GAS (for example from bnu213b.zip) put's random byte
at end of .comment section, which causes bootstrap comparisson failure of 
current CVS versions of GCC. I have met this problem only with DJGPP native 
binutils. Linux to DJGPP cross-binutils does not show this behaviour.

Assembler source file attached.

Simple script to reproduce the problem:

#! /bin/sh
as mbchar.s -o mbchar.o1
as mbchar.s -o mbchar.o2
cmp mbchar.o1 mbchar.o2

This problem appears rather seldomly, as this was only file which failed 
comparrision test.

Andris

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	.file	"mbchar.c"
	.section	.debug_abbrev,""
Ldebug_abbrev0:
	.section	.debug_info,""
Ldebug_info0:
	.section	.debug_line,""
Ldebug_line0:
	.section .text
Ltext0:
Letext0:
	.section	.debug_abbrev,""
	.byte	0x0
	.ident	"GCC: (GNU) 3.4 20030604 (experimental)"

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