>Number:         61
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ld core dumps
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan  7 21:50:07 1994
>Originator:     James Jegers
>Organization:
	
>Release:        current
>Environment:
    	
System: NetBSD na1.cs.uwm.edu 0.9a JIMJ#1 i386


>Description:
	Running ld (or cc) on an executable, causes ld to core dump.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	

-> cat > foo.c
main()
{}

-> cc foo.c

-> ld a.out
Bus error (core dumped)

-> gdb /usr/obj/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld
Reading symbol data from /usr/obj/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld...done.
(gdb) run a.out
Starting program: /usr/obj/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld a.out

Program received signal 10, Bus error
Reading in symbols for /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.c...done.
0x3f45 in enter_file_symbols (entry=(struct file_entry *) 0x15000) (/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.c line 1163)
1163			} else if (p->n_un.n_strx &&

(gdb) bt
#0  0x3f45 in enter_file_symbols (entry=(struct file_entry *) 0x15000) (/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.c line 1163)
#1  0x8373 in read_shared_object (...)
#2  0x3d15 in read_file_symbols (entry=(struct file_entry *) 0x15000) (/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.c line 1082)
#3  0x3b66 in load_symbols () (/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.c line 1044)
#4  0x194f in main (argc=2, argv=(char **) 0xf7bfdbc0) (/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.c line 274)
(gdb) quit


>Fix:
	
>Audit-Trail:
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