Re: [Bug ld/2729] ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Martin,

> I think the guys at MS applied their patches before you applied your PECOFF
> stuff, and unfortunately, these patches didn't go back to upstream binutils.
> In their patches you can read some interesting comments, i.e. that they only
> support WEAK ALIAS, see below.
>
> It seems to me that they have added these WEAK ALIASES to PECOFF in order to
> be able to emulate the unix weak symbol behaviour.
> So maybe WEAK ALIAS support should be added to ld officially. And this seems
> to be compatible with LINK.EXE, too.
>
> The full MS patches are available from MS, or, if you want to, I can send
> them to you.

No thanks - I do not want to become contaminated. :-)

Unless the author(s) of the patch submits it (or allows someone to 
submit it on their behalf) we cannot accept it into the binutils 
sources.  Further the author(s) will also need have to assigned the 
copyright of the patch to the FSF before it can be accepted.

Mind you, it would be very nice if the patch was officially and properly 
submitted.

Cheers
  Nick