Re: internal error in bfd_cache_lookup_worker

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:03:19PM -0700, Eric Hodel wrote:
> This bug appears on the second run of a command.  I may be doing  
> something BFD/GDB considers sneaky.  This script uses RubyInline  
> which compiles and dynamically links a shared library.  Each run  
> removes the shared library forcing it to be rebuilt.  Perhaps BFD  
> thinks the library hasn't changed and bad things happen?

Yes, deleting the file while bfd was holding it open is "sneaky".
This is really a gdb bug, and bfd should not be reporting it as
an internal error.

See http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-10/msg00390.html
and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332184

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre