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From: Nate Eldredge <nge@cs.hmc.edu>
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Subject: gas crashes when assembling this file
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>Number:         85824
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       gas crashes when assembling this file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    obrien
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 07 09:40:17 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 25 04:14:56 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 25 04:14:56 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Nate Eldredge
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p3 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mercury.lan 5.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p3 #1: Wed Jun 29 18:04:58 PDT 2005 nate@mercury.lan:/medium/obj/medium/src/sys/MERCURY i386

GNU assembler 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i386-obrien-freebsd'.


	
>Description:
The as which comes with FreeBSD 5.4 crashes when attempting to assemble
the short file seen below.  This is done as one of the configure tests
when compiling the gcc40 port, which is how I noticed this.  The
message "as exited with signal 11" in my logs worried me at first.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
$ cat crash-as.s
.section .text,"axG",@progbits,.foo,comdat
$ as crash-as.s
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

>Fix:
GNU as 2.16.1 on a Debian Linux system does not crash when assembling
this file.  Perhaps a fix can be merged from that version.
	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->obrien 
Responsible-Changed-By: glebius 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Sep 7 14:09:57 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Assign to binutils maintainer. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85824 

From: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, nge@cs.hmc.edu
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnu/85824: gas crashes when assembling this file
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:52:28 -0500

 Confirming this is still a bug on 8-stable
 
 -- 
 Eitan Adler
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: eadler 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 25 04:14:55 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed in 9.0 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85824 
>Unformatted:
