GNU bug report logs - #20614
Segmentation fault when building on Power8 Little Endian

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 07:59:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Jaromir Capik <jcapik <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>, 20614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject: bug#20614: Segmentation fault when building on Power8 Little Endian
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:20:52 +0200

Jaromir Capik <jcapik <at> redhat.com> writes:

> Hi Andreas.
>
>> Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > [20] .plt                 NOBITS       00000000102b0000 002a0000 00002058
>> > 8 WA     0   0  8
>> > [21] .data                PROGBITS     00000000102b2058 002a2058 002c6d36
>> > 0 WA     0   0  8
>> > [22] .bss                 NOBITS       0000000010578d90 00568d8e 00087740
>> > 0 WA     0   0 16
>> 
>> You have a broken linker.  Having NOBITS sections interspersed with
>> non-NOBITS sections doesn't make sense.
>
> If I understood correctly, this is intentional (security).

This has nothing to do with security.  A NOBITS section only makes sense
at the end of a segment.

Andreas.

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