Bug 142181

Summary:	ld dumps core compiling memdisk
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	H. Peter Anvin <hpa>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Hardware:	i386
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Description H. Peter Anvin 2004-12-07 22:42:38 UTC

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Description of problem:
When compiling memdisk, part of the syslinux suite, the ld included
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5 (FC3 stock) dumps core.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
wget
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-2.11.tar.gz
tar xvfz syslinux-2.11.tar.gz
cd syslinux-2.11/memdisk
make


1. Download syslinux-2.11.tar.gz
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  Core dump linking memdisk16.elf

Expected Results:  It should have built the memdisk binary

Additional info:

Same result both on i386 and x86-64

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2004-12-09 14:30:23 UTC

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-12/msg00093.html